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As per the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012, 96.5% of all rural children between the ages of 6–14 were enrolled in school. This is the fourth annual survey to report enrolment above 96%. India has maintained an average enrolment ratio of 95% for students in this age group from year 2007 to 2014.
Literacy rate in urban areas was 87.7%, higher than rural areas with 73.5%. There is a wide gender disparity in the literacy rate in India [5] and effective literacy rates (age 7 and above) was 84.7% for men and 70.3% for women. [6] The low female literacy rate has a dramatically negative impact on family planning and population stabilisation ...
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act or Right to Education Act ( RTE) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted on 4 August 2009, which describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between the age of 6 to 14 years in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. [1]
Launched. 1995. Status. Active. Website. https://pmposhan.education.gov.in/. The Mid Day Meal Scheme is a school meal programme in India designed to better the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. [1] The scheme has been renamed as PM-POSHAN Scheme. [2] The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in ...
With its booming information economy, India is a land where a good education is often a ticket out of poverty, but it is also a land with extraordinary educational stratification: students with opportunity and means can get an excellent education, while the majority of students have access to poor schools. Rural schools are notoriously poor in ...
A primary school book published under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Punjab. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Hindi: सर्व शिक्षा अभियान, lit. 'Education for all campaign'), or SSA, is an Indian Government programme aimed at the universalisation of Elementary education "in a time bound manner", the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education to ...
Udaygiri. Budget. ₹4,115 crore (US$520 million) ( FY 2022–23 est.) [1] Website. navodaya.gov.in. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya ( JNV) is a system of central schools for talented students predominantly from rural areas in India, targeting gifted students who lack access to accelerated learning due to financial, social and rural disadvantages.
Street children in India. A street child in New Delhi. A street child is a child "for whom the street (in the widest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc.) has become his or her habitual abode and/or source of livelihood; and who is inadequately protected, supervised, or directed by responsible adults". [1]