[Reader-list] Uttarakhand Records Nearly 100% Student Enrolment

Chintan chintangirishmodi at gmail.com
Sat Apr 3 12:42:26 IST 2010


Pawan, thanks for sharing this.

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>wrote:

> Uttarakhand has achieved nearly 100 per cent enrolment of students in
> schools this year and the drop out percentage has come down to mere
> 0.31 per cent from 15 per cent in 2000-01.
>
> Of the 18.06 lakh children in the age group of 6-14 years in the
> state, 17.97 lakh (99.50%) have been enrolled in various schools,
> Uttarakhand Government officials said here.
>
> "The drop out percentage has come down from 15 per cent as per
> 2000-2001 census to 0.31 per cent at present," they said. In the last
> three years, 613 new schools and 594 upper primary schools have been
> set up under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the hill state, the
> officials said.
>
> The government has been implementing several innovative schemes like
> `Sapno ki Udan', `Pahal' and `Muskan' under the Centre's flagship
> programme to improve the quality and reach of education in the State.
>
> The salient features of `Sapno ki Udan' include organising `Mobile
> Schools' to reach out to the children and their parents, to identify
> and mainstream `Out-of-School' children, hosting community and
> educational fairs and conducting regular health camps, Radhika Jha,
> the State Project Director of SSA, told a visiting team of
> journalists.
>
> "The Mobile Schools/Multi Purpose Vehicle are equipped with projector,
> computer library, learning material and other necessary tools. These
> vehicles are used to provide mobile schooling as well as to extend
> awareness and motivational campaigns among the masses," she said.
> (more)
>
> "SSA helped our school in a big way. All the children of our school
> belong to BPL families. We did not have basic infrastructure earlier.
> Now we have chairs, benches and other basic things," Deepa Semwal,
> in-charge Head Mistress of the Primary School at a slum in Dehradun,
> said.
>
> "Health camps are also conducted at our school. We also tell the
> children and their parents about the need to maintain good hygiene at
> home," she said.
>
> `Pahal' is an initiative in PPP (public private partnership) mode for
> providing school education to `never- enrolled' and drop-out children
> in the age-group of 6-14 years belonging to vulnerable sections like
> rag-pickers, beggars and scavengers.
>
> The programme has benefited 763 children in Udham Singh Nagar,
> Nainital and Haridwar districts, officials said.
>
> `Muskaan' is another successful programme that aims at ensuring
> education of children of migrant labourers from states like UP, Bihar,
> Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The programme, that had won appreciation
> from the Centre, was initially implemented in Nainital under SSA.
>
> http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?678523
>
> A certificate mentioning the ability of the student is given when the
> parents migrate to another place so that the student can be admitted
> to a school there.
>
> As many as 3,191 children, studying at 39 centres in Nainital, Udham
> Singh Nagar, Haridwar and Dehradun, are benefiting from the `Muskan'
> programme, the officials said.
>
> The schools in Uttarakhand have school management committees and the
> members of these panels meet the parents, generally underprivileged
> sections of the society, and convince them to send their children to
> the school.
>
> "The parents of the children are extremely poor. They are involved in
> things like rag-picking. We tell them to send the children to school.
> We follow up with the parents to see that their children attend
> classes regularly," Brij Mohan Sharma, president of the management
> committee of a primary school at Ajabpur in the state capital said.
>
> As many as 17,783 women belonging to BPL families have been appointed
> as `Bhojan Mata' (women who prepare food) under the mid-day meal
> scheme.
>
> The scheme, under which free lunch is provided to students on all
> working days, was also instrumental in increasing the enrolment in the
> primary schools, the officials added.
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