With eight million
children never having stepped inside a school and 80 million dropping out
without completing necessary schooling, the United Nations Children’s Fund has
described the situation as a national emergency and called for equipping the
government and civil society to realize the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
According to Louis-Georges
Arsenault UNICEF Representative in India, There has been growth in
implementation of the Act in the past three years but children are still
dropping out, not for labour, but since they are not learning anything in
schools.
13 per cent of
students did not transfer from the primary to upper primary level and there was
not much on offer for emigrant children, and dropouts who wanted to rejoin
school, though the Act did provide for bridge courses.
Real work had to be
done on teacher quality, classroom teaching, effective school functioning and
improved school managing in the coming two years.
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