The number of ‘12th pass’ MLAs have gone up after 2018 Assembly elections

The number of ‘12th pass’ MLAs in the five state assemblies, for which results were declared this week, has actually increased this year compared to the last election five years ago.

Demographic and other data collected by PRS Legislative Research show that in all the five states including Telangana and Mizoram, the number of MLAs who have not studied beyond high school has gone up.

In the outgoing assembly of Telangana, the number of such MLAs was 37. But this time as many as 45 MLAs elected to the House of 119 members happen to be ‘12th pass’. In Madhya Pradesh the number has gone up from 65 to 68, in Mizoram from 8 to 10 in a House of just 40.

In Rajasthan also, the number has gone up from 56 to 58 in a House of 200 members while in Chhattisgarh as many as 28 members this time in a House of 90 happen to have studied only up to school.

Postgraduates: However, the number of postgraduates in four of the five Assemblies has also gone up by eight in Rajasthan and seven in Telangana. But surprisingly the number of postgraduate MLAs has fallen sharply in Madhya Pradesh from 73 to 58 even as the number of MLAs with PG degrees went up by five members even in the state of Chhattisgarh, where there were 31 MLAs with PG degrees in the outgoing assembly.

WOMEN: Barring Chhattisgarh, the number of women MLAs has declined in the other four assemblies. The steepest fall in women MLAs was recorded in Madhya Pradesh, where there were 27 women in the outgoing assembly but there are only 20 now.

Following are the demographic highlights of the five assemblies:

Chhattisgarh

· In the incoming assembly, of the 90 members, 13 are women
· Average age of the incoming Assembly has reduced by 4 years
· Number of members with advanced degrees have increased in the incoming Assembly

Madhya Pradesh

· In the incoming assembly, of the 230 members, 20 are women
· Average age of the incoming Assembly has increased by 2 years
· Number of members with advanced degrees have decreased in the incoming Assembly

Rajasthan

· In the incoming assembly, of the 199 members, 23 are women
· Average age of the incoming Assembly has remained the same
· Number of members with advanced degrees have increased in the incoming Assembly

Mizoram

· In the incoming assembly, of the 40 members, all are men
· Average age of the incoming Assembly has remained the same
· Number of MLAs with advanced degrees have decreased in the incoming Assembly

Telangana

· In the incoming assembly, of the 119 members, 5 are women
· 61 % of all members in the incoming Assembly have been re-elected
· Average age of the incoming Assembly has increased by 3 years
· Number of MLAs with advanced degrees have increased in the incoming Assembly