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Sankar Ray
STOP SHIFTING BLAME FOR EVERYTING TO CPM AND LEFT PARTIES. PARENTS SHOULD BE EDUCATED AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
Parents must not produce children INDISCRIMINATELY like cattle. They should be educated to produce as per their income. Most of these children are from poorer sections who are largely muslims and to very little extent some Hindus. Muslims should be educated to produce children based on their income and they should not shift the blame on Left parties in WB. Sachar committee also indicates about Muslim plight. The fact that in other states Muslims are richer and they prouduce the kids as per their MEANS. In WB there is no limit of producing children even if some one is poor WITH no proper income.
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More than half of Bengal kids out of school
Arunima Ghosh
KOLKATA, April 14: A recent report published by the Union ministry of human resource development has pointed out that more than half the children in West Bengal are yet to enter school.
What is more disturbing is the fact that the state has only two years left to achieve its target of covering all children under the Sarba Shiksha Abhijan. The Centre's report said the state ranks only above Daman and Diu, Bihar, Manipur, Jharkhand and Assam in the number of out-of-school children.
While the national average of out-of-school children is 6.94, the rate for West Bengal is 8.67, higher than at least 21 states including Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal. Around 50.54 per cent children under the 6-14 age group have never attended school in the state, the report states. The state school education minister, Mr Partha De, however, considered the figures furnished by the MHRD incorrect. "The actual progress of SSA in the state is not as bad as what is being portrayed by the Centre," said Mr De. The minister said the pattern and criterion of assessment followed by the Centre are completely different from what is being followed in the state. "It is due to this difference in the process of assessment that the state is being depicted as a poor performer. Our assessment pattern, however, is being changed," said Mr De.
In order to counter the 'misleading' figures of the Centre, the state school education department is conducting a series of surveys. "Preliminary studies show that our figures contradict those furnished by the Centre", said Mr De. The SSA is under a scanner following allegations of funds misappropriation and non-utilisation of allotted funds ever since the programme was undertaken.
The MHRD has identified the reasons behind the state's failure to implement the SSA properly. They are parents' indifference to sending wards to schools, illness of the child or some of his relatives, shortage of teachers and poor facilities in schools.
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