The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2016 – a household survey – put out by the NGO, Pratham, is a consistent and excellent source of information on the quantity and quality of primary education in India.
The trends in quality measured in reading, arithmetic and English are disconcerting.
For instance, children in Class III who can read at least a Class I text has dropped consistently from about 50% to about 40% and children in Class III who can do at least subtraction has dropped from 40% to 25%.