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Between 60 and 70 per cent of urban Indian students are located in private schools, the shift is quite large in even rural India as the latest Pratham survey shows -- while 16.3 per cent of rural children were in private schools in 2005, this increased to 18.8 per cent in 2006, which implies an increase of over 15 per cent in terms of the number of children.Private education costs a lot less, delivers better results, and yet politicians talk about increasing government education -- one of the focus areas of the 11th Plan is to universalise the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan through more government school. the government can still pay for schooling but let parents decide if they want to give these vouchers to government schools or to private ones. Second, on a per capita basis, the poorest 40 per cent of the country's population spends around 30 per cent of the all-India average on education -- since government schooling is free, this means they're either spending on tuition or are sending their children to private schools