Srinagar, Nov 12: The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department (SED) has brought back nearly 90 percent of those children who were either never enrolled or were school dropouts.
Project Director of centrally sponsored scheme, Samagra Shiksha, Deep Raj told Rising Kashmir, “We have been focusing on bringing back the Out of School Children (OoSC) and as of now we have successfully enrolled 40,000 children.”
Raj however said, “at least 40,000 students upto age of 14 years have been enrolled but some of the OoSC were of above 19 years of age and they can’t be enrolled in any school as per their age. But we are giving them a vocational education.”
“We have completed the target of nearly 90 percent including 31,000 those OoSC who were between 19 to 22 years old. We have introduced vocational courses for them in nearly 40 schools,” he said.
The project director further said, “In two years, almost all of the never enrolled or OoSC will be back to school. We will mainstream them and accordingly will provide them a bridge and vocational courses. We are enrolling the students as per their appropriate age.”
Pertinently, Rising Kashmir in August reported that more than 93,000 OoSC will be restored by JKSED in the coming three academic years by enrolling them in government institutions.
Raj had informed that the department had started a survey called Talaash for those kids who have remained out of schools either by not enrolling themselves or quitting the studies midway.”
He said, “It is not only a survey but an educational census. In Jammu and Kashmir, the education is all set to be restored to the children who were never enrolled in any government or private school or have quitted the studies midway.”
