Yes two things need to be considered.
First Enrollment in a class doesn't imply anything (most of the times). Often these figures present a very distorted picture and doesn't indicate if there are students in class, teacher for the class or even a physical classroom. My wife often quotes an example while she was doing B Ed. You are required to teach in classrooms during the course and she used to go to a place near Sadabad (UP) from Agra in a village primary school. To her shock, the primary school building was used for all kinds of activities (including a wedding party accommodation, rallies, you name it...but teaching)
Most of the times students were nowhere to be seen and only thing that attracted the was mid day meal.
As for teachers, they had their own private businesses going and unfortunately most were unpaid for several months (probably forcing them to look elsewhere to make ends meet).
You can imagine what this setup would be doing on actual ground progress other than may be generate some artificial numbers for state government and education department to brag about.
this has to stop through an independent regulatory mechanism. We talk of corruption in various walks of life, but perhaps this is most cruel form where a child's formative and learning years are robbed away making his/her life miserable.
Second, we have to think how to get a person actually benefit from education. Our education system basis is very old and antiquated and perhaps this is where we need to look into. After certain minimum school education, perhaps we need to classify a student and see if Vocational training could be of more use rather than formal education. Services is already becoming a huge part of our economy and if we can get skilled professionals, they can actually make a better difference to not only society but tho their lives as well by earning handsomely based on skills.
This should off course be complimented by higher order institutes for skill enhancement so that a person can grow intellectually as well.
IMHO sectors like Farming, Dairy, Leather and wood working, electronic repair, nursing, animal husbandry, metal working and welding, construction, machinery repair could be a few sectors which need to be covered under such a proposed system.
The purpose of education should be to bring about a qualitative change in a person's life and not merely give him Diplomas. For this system needs to be overhauled radically.
or else life unfortunately would become as this joke tells (in context of countless engineering colleges operating in country)
Son what are you doing after your B Tech?
Regret 
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