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Are poor and socially deprived children being given opportunities to educate themselves according to their highest potential?

Created by : Ajit Singh, Assistant Professor, Sheela Devi Instt. of Mgt. & Tech.  | 03 01 2011 11:45:35 +0000
Keywords : are poor and socially deprived children being given opportunities to educate themselves according to their highest potential?
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There is teach India and some other programmes which are helping in this sector.. but it is not enough and perhaps it wont ever be enough.. We need to do a lot in this account.. We need to know our rural india for this.. We somehow have forgotten that there is more to poor children on metro streets.. There are the ones still working in fields...

Miles to go before we can sleep...
By Sanjana , Superintendent , Education department  03 03 2011 09:09:00 +0000
 
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Policies and programs may be there, but all remain in paper. BUT poor and socially deprived children are never given any opportunity to educate according to their highest potential.
By PS Dhingra, CEO & Vigilance & Transformation Management Consultant, Dhingra Group of Management & Educational Consultants  03 03 2011 12:09:41 +0000
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The poor and deprived children particularly in rural India is really suffering due to social cause than the facilities. There is no hard and fast rule for them to go to school and interestingly teachers remain absent frequently in such schools. Many parents avoid girls to go to school in a feeling that ultimately they will marry and leave to work in other houses. The parents have no knowledge about the benefits of education. Interestingly, those who studied a little in spite of all these odds don't work and behave properly and play cards etc. which gives a bad impression on education. Of course, rarely a few succeed to get jobs in towns and forget their village.
By Santosh Kumar Mohanty, Civil Engineer-Municipal, Sambalpur University  | 03 03 2011 15:50:09 +0000
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Yes it's true, but almost all those children are born to work. Its unfortunate for them that as they be capable enough to return back at their place they start earning and that is the only option for them to survive. Govt. has some plans but we very well know that plans are and for papers only, they will never be implemented. Just we can say sorry to those poor fellows.
By Anand Sharma, Monitoring the research funded by DIT, Department of Information Technology  | 03 03 2011 11:42:56 +0000
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Yes. It is true. But it is not enough. Children are made to work on account of their poverty. They sometimes need to support their family. So unless a solution is found for this aspect, the opportunities available to poor and socially deprived children to educate themselves cannot be fully utilised by them. One solution may be to take them away from their family temporarily - like the Gurukul system of yore.
By Raju V P, Senior Manager, an International Bank  | 03 03 2011 10:02:40 +0000
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Are poor and socially deprived children being Opportunities to educate themselves?
By Ajit Singh, Assistant Professor, Sheela Devi Instt. of Mgt. & Tech.  | 03 01 2011 11:45:35 +0000
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Depends on two questions :

1.  What do we mean by opportunities ?

2.  What do we mean by education ?

Compare the answers to these two questions regarding a government school for poor children , and even a decent middle-class private school , and you will see that children from the poorer society have neither the opportunities nor an education.

Giving free school-books and free mid-day meals is certainly to be appreciated. However education is more than this ; can even a single government school boast of a clean and hygienic environment , with decent classrooms that are properly equipped and brightly lit ? Can even a single government school boast of a decent teacher student ratio ?

If at all children from the poorer classes are getting all that they are supposed to , what accounts for the high school drop-out rate at the secondary level ?

How many children who do get a primary and secondary school education go on to find decent employment ?

 
By K. NARAYAN, None, None  | 03 06 2011 05:41:26 +0000
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Those poor and socially deprived children don't even get to know what is their potential and what are the oppurtunities to get educated. Then where comes the question of giving opportunities to them to educate themselves.
By Venkat Ramanan, Manager - Projects  | 03 03 2011 12:27:08 +0000
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Dear Sujana, Raju & Anand,

Policy and programs of course are there but when the implementers don't care to take any initiative to implement those policies the same become useless. A common man particularly the poor and totally layman does have any source to get knowledge about such policies. So, these documents become mere political stints without any use.
By PS Dhingra, CEO & Vigilance & Transformation Management Consultant, Dhingra Group of Management & Educational Consultants  | 03 03 2011 12:08:56 +0000
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