India has made best progress in terms of sending children to school in the last five years, according to a recent report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)

“India has made the largest progress in absolute terms of any country in the world over the past five years, reducing out-of-school numbers from 20 million in 2000 to 2.3 million in 2006, and 1.7 million by latest data,” according to the Unesco findings.

India brought down out-of-school numbers from 20 million in 2000 to 2.3 million in 2006, and to 1.7 million according to the latest data.

The report lauded the Indian government for providing aid to the sector. “India also receives the largest share of aid to basic education of any country in the world (10 percent). It received almost 50 percent more aid to basic education in 2011 than in 2010, making it the seventh country for the largest increase in aid to basic education over the course of that year,” said the report

But the largely-cheering report has a warning too. “India has moved up a position from third bottom place in 2004-2006 for the most out of school children to fourth bottom place in 2011. (Ethiopia took its place),” the report says. And that is very little progress.

Read the report.