The possibility of migrant children dropping out of school after moving back to their hometowns:
Migrant children dropping out of school. As the migration caused by Covid-19 threatens to multiply the mismatch of enrolment-attendance and increase the number of out-of-school students, India needs to handle efficient policy from the files to the field. However, these authorities are obligated with the enactment of the Right to Education Act in 2009. To guarantee the education of children from migrant families.
However, Census 2011 estimates shed light on the enormous challenge at hand to ensure that children in rural India who practice seasonal migration from about 10.7 million households complete elementary education. However, half of the 12.82 million children who have never enrolled in schools are in the three states of Bihar, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, and eight states: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal account for two-thirds of the 35.62 million children who have dropped out.
Interestingly, 80% of the children enrolled. Students not attending school is also accounted for in these states. Migration is one aspect that these states have in common. In terms of enrolling and attending school at a lower grade for their age.
India’s 100 million migrants expected to contribute 10 percent of GDP:
Such children are also more vulnerable to violence and health threats and are likely to be out of school, dropping out to supplement household income. Lower educational achievement is high.
Moreover, the unintended result of the current pandemic is that. The public eye inevitably turned its gaze to those who were suffering on the margins because of the lockdown. The effect has reached over 40 million internal migrants. A study of 18 states shows that 46.2% of migrant children have stopped their schooling. Covid-19, compounded by the digital divide and lack of normal wages, could trigger a huge increase in child labor, undoing progression for decades.
Similarly, in the initial stages, given the limited resources and budget limitations, the emphasis could be on the youngest children and those most likely to gain the most from public education. Such targeting helped by profiling and preparation. It is important to resolve the problem of education for migrant children in a long-term and systemic way. Though their efforts have been invisible so far. India’s 100 million migrants expected to contribute 10 percent of GDP. Only imagine how much this can be changed by education! Let’s start by acting collectively to move our migrant children from the fringes to the marrow.
