SECURING MY FUTURE

If we believe the very first lesson of our 1st standard social studies,we have to believe that "Children are the future of the nation".Now a days the statement doesn't makes any sense.We have entered our 64 years of in dependency and we all know the fact that half of our children are illiterate.

The irony reason behind the cause is Poverty. more than half of the Indian children belongs to the BPL parents.


Education in our country is provided under Public Sector under the funds from Federal, State and local levels.


There are the modalities of the provision of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution
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here are few statistics surveyed by the smile foundation, the level of children concern of our country for the year 2002


* Less than half of India's children between the age 6 and 14 go to school.
* A little over one-third of all children who enroll in grade one reach grade eight.
* At least 35 million children aged 6 - 14 years do not attend school.
* 53% of girls in the age group of 5 to 9 years are illiterate.

* In India, only 53% of habitation has a primary school.
* In India, only 20% of habitation has a secondary school.
* On an average an upper primary school is 3 km away in 22% of areas under habitations.
* In nearly 60% of schools, there are less than two teachers to teach Classes I to V.
* On an average, there are less than three teachers per primary school. They have to manage classes from I to V every day.
* High cost of private education and need to work to support their families and little interest in studies are the reasons given by 3 in every four drop-outs as the reason they leave.
* Dropout rates increase alarmingly in class III to V, its 50% for boys, 58% for girls.
* 1 in 40, primary school in India is conducted in open spaces or tents.
* In Andhra Pradesh (South India), 52 upper primary schools were operating without a building in 2002, while in 1993, there were none.
* In Maharashtra (West India), there were 10 schools operating without a building in 1993, this has climbed to 33 in 2002.
* More than 50 per cent of girls fail to enroll in school; those that do are likely to drop out by the age of 12.
* 50% of Indian children aged 6-18 do not go to school



More than 50% of India's children are malnourished.

While one in every five adolescent boys is malnourished, one in every two girls in India is undernourished.

23% of India's children are underweight at birth.

It is the time to take collective as well as individual responsibility to remedy the present situation is here.

As a concerned citizens do something about it; something meaningful, something concrete, something urgently. No more do we have the luxury of blaming the system or postponing our actions.
JAI HIND