These are the days we are speaking
about cent percent literacy. Politicians’ assurance about giving free schemes
for Education is on the raise. Government spends through Sarva Sikshya Abhyan
and other schemes to educate children. So many facilities to give free Education
are given by the state Government. The awareness of RTE (Right to Education) is
more; it seems in the minds of general public. Nook and Corner, schools are
coming and the roads are flooded the private school vans and buses.
With all these factors in the
positive side, a National Survey in its sample estimation. Says out-of-school
children aged 6-13 is more than half of them in Tamil Nadu are school drop out.
What does it mean?
What happens to effective steps
through Right to Reservation Act and the various steps taken to promote Primary
Education sector by the state Government of Tamil Nadu.
No doubt! Various social measures
like easy Admission process, Noon meal scheme, free cycles, free text books,
Lap-top etc are comfortable given by the state Government.
Is it so, they are not yielding
proper result! Or they are not reaching the users properly?
The news, “More than half of the
children in the age group 6-13 are drop out” is really alarming and it is
regretful and hard to accept and digest.
Who has organized this survey? It
is Educational Consultants India, which is none but a Government of India
enterprise. The survey was conducted by the supports of Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Another alarming fact is, education
has become the property of rich sector, irrespective of all the good measures
taken by the State Government.
Most of the Educationists who
wanted to service with philanthropic approach to the cause of Education were
thrown out to streets since they were not able to complete with rich and
otherwise big brothers of Tamil Nadu who are the business owners of Educational
Institution. Even a rough statistics may reveal, if taken into account in and
around Tamil Nadu, most of the owners of schools colleges, universities had
entirely different kind of origin of business like real estate brokers, Arrack
shop owners, Gundas, cut-throat politicians etc. the way in which they acquire
lands and money have got their own stories. After acquiring financial status,
they are hiding themselves in the shelter of “Education Philanthropic
personalities”.
RTE Act has come to into force in
2011, and now the statistics says, the number of school drop out has gone up to
a tune of 10 percentages.
The statistics released recently
reveals that the number of drop outs have increased by more than 7000 compared
to the findings of the survey in 2009. That is, the percentage of drop outs have
increased from 43% to 53.57%.
There is no remarkable difference
in the range of dropouts in the age groups 6-13 between rural and urban areas,
the report says. 51.59 percentage of urban drop out prevails in urban areas
where as it is 55.41% in rural areas. But, there is a remarkable difference
between the number of boys and girls in the urban areas of Tamil Nadu state.
49.44% of boys are drop outs and it is 56.33 percent is with respect to girls.
But in rural areas of Tamil Nadu 55.14 percent of boys are school dropouts where
as it 55.76% percent with respect to girls.
It is observed, that the maximum
number of drop out are after VII standard, which is 29.97% and after V standard
its 23%.
Let us have a look on the National
sample survey of Estimation of out of school children in the age group between 6
and 13.
The highest number of school
dropout is 4.66 lac in UttarPradesh, which is the highest in India.
It is analyzed that 23.76% of the
students discontinued their school, because of poorly and Economic backwardness,
18.38% reluctance and no-interest and 12.18% children because of child labour to
support their family income. Out of the entire number, 1.3% of school dropouts
are from Tamil Nadu. The result shows that 56.33% of urban girls dropped out and
its 49.44% in buys. It is regretful to account, that 53.5% out of school kids in
Tamil Nadu are school drop outs.
These are the days we are speaking
about cent percent literacy. Politicians’ assurance about giving free schemes
for Education is on the raise. Government spends through Sarva Sikshya Abhyan
and other schemes to educate children. So many facilities to give free Education
are given by the state Government. The awareness of RTE (Right to Education) is
more; it seems in the minds of general public. Nook and Corner, schools are
coming and the roads are flooded the private school vans and buses.
With all these factors in the
positive side, a National Survey in its sample estimation. Says out-of-school
children aged 6-13 is more than half of them in Tamil Nadu are school drop out.
What does it mean?
What happens to effective steps
through Right to Reservation Act and the various steps taken to promote Primary
Education sector by the state Government of Tamil Nadu.
No doubt! Various social measures
like easy Admission process, Noon meal scheme, free cycles, free text books,
Lap-top etc are comfortable given by the state Government.
Is it so, they are not yielding
proper result! Or they are not reaching the users properly?
The news, “More than half of the
children in the age group 6-13 are drop out” is really alarming and it is
regretful and hard to accept and digest.
Who has organized this survey? It
is Educational Consultants India, which is none but a Government of India
enterprise. The survey was conducted by the supports of Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Another alarming fact is, education
has become the property of rich sector, irrespective of all the good measures
taken by the State Government.
Most of the Educationists who
wanted to service with philanthropic approach to the cause of Education were
thrown out to streets since they were not able to complete with rich and
otherwise big brothers of Tamil Nadu who are the business owners of Educational
Institution. Even a rough statistics may reveal, if taken into account in and
around Tamil Nadu, most of the owners of schools colleges, universities had
entirely different kind of origin of business like real estate brokers, Arrack
shop owners, Gundas, cut-throat politicians etc. the way in which they acquire
lands and money have got their own stories. After acquiring financial status,
they are hiding themselves in the shelter of “Education Philanthropic
personalities”.
RTE Act has come to into force in
2011, and now the statistics says, the number of school drop out has gone up to
a tune of 10 percentages.
The statistics released recently
reveals that the number of drop outs have increased by more than 7000 compared
to the findings of the survey in 2009. That is, the percentage of drop outs have
increased from 43% to 53.57%.
There is no remarkable difference
in the range of dropouts in the age groups 6-13 between rural and urban areas,
the report says. 51.59 percentage of urban drop out prevails in urban areas
where as it is 55.41% in rural areas. But, there is a remarkable difference
between the number of boys and girls in the urban areas of Tamil Nadu state.
49.44% of boys are drop outs and it is 56.33 percent is with respect to girls.
But in rural areas of Tamil Nadu 55.14 percent of boys are school dropouts where
as it 55.76% percent with respect to girls.
It is observed, that the maximum
number of drop out are after VII standard, which is 29.97% and after V standard
its 23%.
Let us have a look on the National
sample survey of Estimation of out of school children in the age group between 6
and 13.
The highest number of school
dropout is 4.66 lac in UttarPradesh, which is the highest in India.
It is analyzed that 23.76% of the
students discontinued their school, because of poorly and Economic backwardness,
18.38% reluctance and no-interest and 12.18% children because of child labour to
support their family income. Out of the entire number, 1.3% of school dropouts
are from Tamil Nadu. The result shows that 56.33% of urban girls dropped out and
its 49.44% in buys. It is regretful to account, that 53.5% out of school kids in
Tamil Nadu are school drop outs.