Jagan cites UDISE+ to say government-school enrolment fell 5,56,666. The coalition’s private-to-public shift claim is what he is attacking.

The opposition put a fall of 5,56,666 government-school students on the public card. The figures are as cited by him, not a desk download of UDISE+.

On Sunday, 23 August 2026, YSR Congress Party president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy raised what he described as a sharp decline in government-school enrolment in Andhra Pradesh. He cited UDISE+ figures to question the State government’s claim that more than 1.10 lakh students had shifted from private to government schools. More than 1.10 lakh is the government claim as he challenged it. It is not an independent verification printed here. This desk will keep every enrolment number on this cutting labelled as cited by him.

As he cited, comparing 2023-24 and 2025-26, students in government schools fell from 40,50,116 to 34,93,450 — a fall of 5,56,666. Government schools stood at 44,222 against around 45,000 earlier. Aided schools fell from 991 to 797. Privately managed school enrolment rose from 45,53,380 to 48,40,296. Those five counts and the two year-tags are his cited table. This desk has not independently downloaded UDISE+ for this card and will not pretend it has.

He said that if more than 1.10 lakh students had shifted from private to government schools, public-system enrolment should have increased. He demanded that the government explain the decline alongside the private rise. A demand for an explanation is not the explanation. No government reply sits on this filing. This desk will not invent a rebuttal table, a mid-year correction, or a private-school closure count.

He recalled 2019–24 initiatives as he described them: Mana Badi–Nadu Nedu covering infrastructure in 56,703 government schools, welfare hostels and junior colleges; tablets for Class VIII students and teachers; interactive flat panels for higher classes; smart televisions in primary schools; English-medium and bilingual textbooks; spoken-English training; and a proposed International Baccalaureate system. Fifty-six thousand seven hundred and three is the institution count as he cited it for Mana Badi–Nadu Nedu. These lines are his claims about the previous tenure. They are not a current Budget document reprinted as this desk’s finding.

What this card does not contain matters as much as what it does. There is no Form B on this filing. There is no local-body election notification on this filing. There is no polling date on this filing. If a Form B or a poll date is not notified, it is not notified. This desk will not invent a ward schedule, a municipal calendar, or a booth date to dress a Sunday political charge as an election paper.

Vijayawada is the dateline. The geography of the charge is statewide government and private school enrolment as he framed it. This desk will not invent a district-wise break of the 5,56,666, a named education secretary reply, or an independent UDISE+ extract.

The honest picture is a Sunday, 23 August 2026 political charge by Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy; UDISE+ figures as cited by him showing government enrolment from 40,50,116 to 34,93,450 and a fall of 5,56,666; government schools at 44,222 against around 45,000; aided schools from 991 to 797; private enrolment from 45,53,380 to 48,40,296; a challenged claim of more than 1.10 lakh private-to-public shift; Mana Badi–Nadu Nedu cited at 56,703 institutions; no government reply on this card; and no Form B, no local-body notification and no polling date. Until the government answers on this filing, or an independent UDISE+ extract is locked on this desk, the enrolment fight remains a political citation war. The missing papers are the reply and the Form B.