{"id":19182,"date":"2020-01-27T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=19182"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T04:19:10","slug":"education-for-the-last-child-key-to-indias-sustainable-growth-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/education-for-the-last-child-key-to-indias-sustainable-growth-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for the Last Child, Key to India’s Sustainable Growth : CRY"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI<\/span>,\u00a0Jan. 27, 2020 :<\/span><\/strong> As the world celebrates the International Day of Education on 24th January, a close look at India’s<\/span>\u00a0education status reveals that the nation with the largest child population (39% of the overall population) is yet to reach the goal of universalised education.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the U-DISE 2016-2017 (Unified District Information System for Education \u2013 a consolidated database of information about schools in\u00a0India<\/span>) data, while the country improved a lot in terms of enrolling children to schools, annual dropout rate (19.89%) is still worrying at secondary and higher secondary levels.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As\u00a0India’s<\/span>\u00a0Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009 ensuring free and quality education to children within 6 to 14 years completes a decade, the Gross Enrolment Ratio indicating the general level of participation per stage of school education surpasses 95% at the primary level.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the scenario degrades at upper primary and secondary levels as gross enrolment ratio comes down to less than 80% at the secondary level, and at higher secondary level it plummets to 55%, thus clearly indicating a worrisome trend of poor retention of children as they climb the educational ladder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Government department in charge of education (Ministry of Human Resource Department) presents a grim picture of availability of qualified and trained teachers, as a little above 80% of teachers are duly trained with professional qualifications. Also, one third (34%) of schools do not have adequate numbers of teachers as per standard norms. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the last 40 years, CRY \u2013 Child Rights and You has been working relentlessly towards ensuring that children who dropped out are re-enrolled to schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Puja Marwaha<\/span>, the CEO at CRY said, “In our intervention areas efforts are taken to make schools compliant with all basic infra-structural facilities, ensure that they are running well, and there is access to education at all levels.”<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“The coming decade will see the biggest cohort of\u00a0India’s<\/span>\u00a0children slowly move into adulthood and allocating adequate resources to build their future would certainly be the game changer.\u00a0Prioritizing universalised education will drive the country to become a world leader set on a sustainable growth path,” Puja added. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CRY – Child Rights and You<\/b>\u00a0is an Indian NGO, which works to ensure lasting change in the lives of more than 3 million underprivileged children across 19 states in\u00a0India<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI,\u00a0Jan. 27, 2020 : As the world celebrates the International Day of Education on 24th January, a close look at India’s\u00a0education status reveals that the nation with the largest child population (39% of the overall population) is yet to reach the goal of universalised education. According to the U-DISE 2016-2017 (Unified District Information System […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-others"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}