STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: The Assam State Primary Teachers' Association (ASPTA) has launched a drive on its own to re-admit dropout students in schools.
Talking to The Sentinel, ASPTA general secretary Ratul Chandra Goswami said that there are 78,000 children in the State who are still sidelined from the education system. Therefore, he said, in order to attain the goal of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2022, the ASPTA will try to re-induct as many dropout children as possible in the Government education system within the next two years.
The initiative was flagged off here by admitting five such children in the Hatkhowapara Primary School in the Kamrup (M) district. The children were presented with books and other educational aids required at the primary level.
Goswami informed that a survey had been carried out under the EFAIDAS project, which was supervised by the All India Primary Teachers' Federation, in three Education Blocks under the Guwahati sub-division - Rani, Rampur and Dimoria - from October, 2021. The survey found that 3,226 families which were covered comprised 3,329 children in the age group of 6 to 14. Of these, 111 children had dropped out of school.
That survey was the genesis of the drive to re-admit dropout students in Government schools, Goswami said.
Earlier, three girls were admitted to a school in Nazira by the ASPTA on the occasion of International Women's day on March 8, he said.
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