An independent sample survey conducted in 2005 revealed an estimated 1.34 crore children as being out of school, a figure which was reduced to an estimated 81.50 lakh when a similar survey was repeated in 2009.
The principal reasons children remain out of school a figure are poverty, child labour, domestic work and sibling care especially for girls, disability, migration of families and unrest in areas of civil strife.
The Government has brought in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 which under Section 10 provides that it is the duty of every parent or guardian to admit his child to a neighbourhood school and under section 6 for the State to provide a neighbourhood school to facilitate the education of children in the age group of 6-14 years. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which is the programme to meet the objectives of the RTE Act, has sanctioned 3.84 lakh schools, 16.02 lakh additional classrooms, 5.84 lakh toilets and 2.21 lakh drinking water facilities and 19.65 lakh posts of teachers across the country so far, towards meeting the objective of universal elementary education.
The principal reasons children remain out of school a figure are poverty, child labour, domestic work and sibling care especially for girls, disability, migration of families and unrest in areas of civil strife.
The Government has brought in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 which under Section 10 provides that it is the duty of every parent or guardian to admit his child to a neighbourhood school and under section 6 for the State to provide a neighbourhood school to facilitate the education of children in the age group of 6-14 years. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which is the programme to meet the objectives of the RTE Act, has sanctioned 3.84 lakh schools, 16.02 lakh additional classrooms, 5.84 lakh toilets and 2.21 lakh drinking water facilities and 19.65 lakh posts of teachers across the country so far, towards meeting the objective of universal elementary education.
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