Education for
Underprivileged
Children
• By the government estimate, out of 200
million children in the age group of 6 to
14 in India, around 59 million do not
attend school. Of the rest, who are
currently in school, 4 out of every 10
children beginning to attend school will
drop out before completing their primary
school education.
• . When a child is born in the house of a poor
person he is taken as an addition to the number
of earners. He is rarely sent to school and
mainly made to learn the tactics of the father’s
vocation so that he can also start earning.
Without the necessary education, children are
far more likely to be poor when they are adults,
creating a vicious cycle of poverty.
Among the world’s 10 richest
people, four are Indians. On the
other side, 17 million Indian
children work as labourers.
• Poor children see times where fingers gifted for holding a
pencil or a crayon are smeared with sand and mud to relieve
their hungry stomachs, the back is burdened with load of their
younger brother or sister instead of their school bags.
Ironically, they are part of constructing school buildings and
they never get a chance to study in them. Since the worth of
education is not known to the parents, the children are not
sent to school and are sent to work by compulsion and not by
choice, mostly by parents or are made to stay back,which
gives them a sense of insecurity . What if we can educate
these children on the parents working sites itself?
• Thus we introduce a new literacy programme..
•“EDUCATION
KNOCKS-shiksha ki
dastak
• where education comes knocking at your door”
Main idea of Education Knocks
• Imparting education to children of labour should be
incorporated as essential part of any contract whether for
construction or for allowing any industry, power projects,
University etc. because these projects do take a minimum of
five to six years for completion and if it possible to educate
these children at their parents working sites, at least 90%of
the children can get basic primary education and a better
understanding.In the agreements and contracts a list of all
the total number of workers and their children should be
submitted along with a consent letter by a local society,
NGO’s and volunteers, who are willing to take up
“education knocks” literacy programmed.
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THE NEED FOR
IMPLEMENTATION OF
EDUCATION KNOCKS IS..
Education going to the doorstep.
Less infrastructure.
No regular employees.
Flexible timings.
Making education available on humanitarian
grounds.
INNOVATIVE METHODS OF IMPARTING
EDUCATION
• Lucrative, interesting and entertaining classes with basic
teaching of computers.
• Audio visual teaching aids to show educative movies and
programmes, talk shows.
• Syllabus books, vocational training books and mobile
library.
• Atleast two sets of uniforms should be provided so that the
children have proper clothes to wear.
• A nutritious meal or some snacks to improve malnutrition.
• Bi-weekly, monthly and annual examinations with awards.
• Small educative tours for better exposure of the world.
Ways to make the program attractive
• Incentives should be given to families where all the children are
educated.
• Increments to the labourers should be based on their zeal and
effort shown by them to provide education.
• Classification of contractors in categories should also be based on
the number of children of labour class being educated by them
during the tenure of the contract.
• Minimum ISO (international Organization for Standardization)
standards should be set for any industry and construction
companies to encourage them to take up education knocks literacy
WAYS AND MEANS OF
RAISING FINANCE
• “Education knocks” should be run parallel to sarva shiksha
abhiyan by the government itself. Equal amounts of funds should
be provided keeping the importance of right to education for all.
Regulatory authorities and ombudsman should be appointed by the
government for regulating and keeping a check on running of this
project. Contractors industries and construction companies should
keep at least 5% of the completion amount or gross income of the
industries for this literacy programme. Rest of the needed funds
should be provided by the government out of the education cess that
is collected. While setting of the budget the uniforms, books,
salaries of the teachers, daily snacks and stationery should be kept
in mind.
APPROXIMATE BUDGET FOR “EDUCATION KNOCKS” LITERACY PROGRAMMME
(Considering 50 students under one contractor)
ITEM OF EXPANDITURE
COST PER ANNUM
TEACHING STAFF
3,00,000
BOOKS (500 per student)
25,000
STATIONERY(200 per student, per month)
60,000
UNIFORM (1200 per student for 2 pairs)
60,000
SNACKS(50 per day)
30,000
The total annual budget sums up to approximately 6Lakhs.
Even a small building takes minimum 5 years for construction, thus total cost= 30Lakhs.
If the total cost of construction is 6crore,this project shall take only 5% of it.
The money collected from the education cess ,the aids by the state and central government ,and world bank. Should be
utilized for forming :•Mobile library (including toys for small children) costing approximately 50,000
•Audio visual teaching aids costing approximately 2,50,000.
* THIS BUDGET IS TAKEN WITH APPROXIMATE MINIMUM VALUES.