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

[Pawan Durani]

Thank you Chintan , Uttrakhand like other BJP ruled states have really
done some great works in terms of education and women empowerment etc.


On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chintan <chintangirishmodi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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