BIKANER, Nov. 14 -- Girls outnumber boys by over 514,000 in Rajasthan's government schools, accounting for a 53.24% slice of the total enrolment figures so far this year, according to the latest figures shared by the state school education department. The data records 1,139 girl students per every 1,000 boys in government schools, and also records an increase in overall enrolment for the first time in five years. The department recorded 7,937,136 students in government schools, compared with 7,250,496 in the 2025-26 academic year. This represents an increase of 686,640 students. Of the total enrolment, 4,225,545 are girls, 3,710,989 are boys and 602 are transgender students. Girls account for 53.24% of the total, boys make up 46.75%. The difference between the number of girls and boys is 514,556 students. Additional chief secretary (school education) Rajesh Kumar Yadav said around 4.86 lakh more girls were enrolled this year, attributing the increase to growing trust and awareness towards girls' education. Sanskrit education institutions also recorded higher enrolment of girls than boys. The state has 1,879 Sanskrit schools with a combined enrolment of 124,155 students, including 64,822 girls and 59,333 boys. Girls account for 52.21% of Sanskrit school enrolment, compared with 47.79% for boys, and outnumber them by 5,489. The figures have been reported alongside the Rajasthan Shiksha Setu Abhiyan, through which the department sought to identify children who were out of school and bring them into the education system. The campaign focused on girls, children with special needs, migrant children, child labourers and children from tribal and nomadic communities. Yadav described the campaign as a social responsibility in addition to an administrative duty. Under the Rajasthan Shiksha Setu Abhiyan, every school principal was asked to assign a teacher the responsibility of identifying and enrolling an out-of-school child. The teacher was to contact the child's family, facilitate admission and upload the relevant details to the Shala Darpan portal. Each admission was to be monitored through a dashboard....