Lok Sabha Question No. 3540 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-21
Subject: Education for Underprivileged Children
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAJESHBHAI NARANBHAI CHUDASAMA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3540 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 ST  DECEMBER, 2015

## Education for Underprivileged Children

## 3540.  SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAMA:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  maintained  any  data  relating  to  number  of  slum  children, street children and the children of migrant labourers who have no access to education and if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (b) the steps taken/being taken to integrate such children into the school education system;
- (c) whether the Government has any  schemes to support NGOs and voluntary organisations engaged ineducation of such underprivileged children; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## (SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a):  No  data  is  maintained  in  the  Ministry  of  Human  Resource  Development  relating  to number of slum children, street children and the children of migrant labourers.

However, as per an independent survey titled  'National Sample Survey of Estimation of Out of School Children in the Age 6-13 in India' commissioned by this Ministry in 2014 through an  independent  agency,  4.73  lakh  children  living  in  slum  areas  are  estimated  to  be  out  of school.  For  the  year  2015-16,  the  Ministry  has  approved  Rs.  12704.231  lakh  under  Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for the benefit of 227218 migrant children. State-wise details of out of  school  children  in  slum  areas  as  per  2014  survey  and  provision  made  under  SSA  for migrant children for 2015-16 are at Annexure.

(b):  The  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  Act,  2009,  which  became operative with effect from 1 st April, 2010, mandates that all children in the age group of 6-14 years  shall  be  in  schools  for  completing  elementary  education.  Section  4  of  the  RTE  Act provides for special training for age appropriate admission of out of school children. Those children who have missed out certain academic years either for being never enrolled to school or  having  dropped  out  of  school,  have  a  right  to  Special  Training  in  residential  and  non residential mode, subsequently to be mainstreamed in formal schools in age appropriate class. These  out  of  school  children  include  those  who  are  never  enrolled,  those  who  drop  out, children  of  migrants,  street  and  working  children,  children  without  adult  protection  etc. Strategies  such  as  providing  residential  schools  and  hostels,  transport  and  escort  facility, seasonal hostels, special training centres at worksite, migration cards, back to school camps etc. are being implemented and have proved to be successful for the care of these children.

(c) & (d): Under Innovative & Experimental Education (I&E) component of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, financial assistance is provided to NGOs including those working for the benefit of slum  and  street  children.    The  majority  of  schools  are  under  the  purview  of  State/UT governments.  It  is  primarily  their  responsibility  to  make  provision  for  schooling  of  slum children, street children and children of migrant labourers.

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## ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  3540 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2015 ASKED BY SHRI RAJESHBHAI CHUDASAM REGARDING 'EDUCATION FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN'

Statement showing details of out of school children in slum areas as per 2014 survey and provision made under SSA for migrant children in 2015-16

| Sl. No.   | State/UTs                |   Out of school children in slum areas as per National Sample Survey |   Migrant Children covered under SSA |
|-----------|--------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |                                                                  275 |                                    0 |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh           |                                                                14080 |                                 9461 |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh        |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 4         | Assam                    |                                                                14947 |                                18131 |
| 5         | Bihar                    |                                                                41096 |                                 3741 |
| 6         | Chandigarh               |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh             |                                                                    0 |                                 1131 |
| 8         | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 9         | Daman &Diu               |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 10        | Delhi                    |                                                                79631 |                                    0 |
| 11        | Goa                      |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 12        | Gujarat                  |                                                                37893 |                                49957 |
| 13        | Haryana                  |                                                                 2849 |                                    0 |
| 14        | Himachal Pradesh         |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 15        | Jammu &Kashmir           |                                                                    0 |                                36766 |
| 16        | Jharkhand                |                                                                    0 |                                 3244 |
| 17        | Karnataka                |                                                                25540 |                                 7990 |
| 18        | Kerala                   |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 19        | Lakshadweep              |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 20        | Madhya Pradesh           |                                                                77125 |                                11259 |
| 21        | Maharashtra              |                                                                34754 |                                51808 |
| 22        | Manipur                  |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 23        | Meghalaya                |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 24        | Mizoram                  |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 25        | Nagaland                 |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 26        | Odisha                   |                                                                23876 |                                13811 |
| 27        | Puducherry               |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 28        | Punjab                   |                                                                11776 |                                    0 |
| 29        | Rajasthan                |                                                                 5972 |                                 1000 |
| 30        | Sikkim                   |                                                                    0 |                                    0 |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu               |                                                                22983 |                                 2605 |
| 32        | Telangana                |                                                                    0 |                                11202 |
| 33        | Tripura                  |                                                                  277 |                                 4471 |
| 34        | Uttar Pradesh            |                                                                 7308 |                                    0 |
| 35        | Uttarakhand              |                                                                15332 |                                  641 |
| 36        | West Bengal              |                                                                57417 |                                    0 |
|           | Total                    |                                                               473131 |                               227218 |