Mansi Khandelwal
JWB Blogger
6.54 Crore Children In India Never Attended School: Census 2011
- JWB Post
- November 5, 2016
I remember how in school we were taught that “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world” and though I didn’t really understand its importance then, I truly believe in it now! It is sad to read that as many as 65.4 million people between the age 5 and 19 years in India have never attended any school while another 44.9 million dropped out of schools between 2001 to 2010.
Out of 380.1 million people falling between the age group of 5-19 years, 269.8 million attend educational institutions. In all, 44.9 million (11.8%) people have attended schools earlier, while 65.4 million (17.2%) have never been to a school.
According to census data 2011, there were about 6.57 million disabled people in the age group of 5-19. Out of the total disabled population, 1.75 million (26.7%) has never attended any school, 0.8 million (12.1%) has dropped out of schools in the last decade while 4.02 million people (61.2%) are attending educational institutions.
The number of disabled persons who never attended any educational institution in 2011 was found to be highest among persons with ‘multiple disability’ (54.4%), followed by ‘mental illness’ (50.3%) and ‘mental retardation’ (41.2%) whereas persons with ‘any other disability’ (17.7%) show the least percentage.
In the year 2001, about 3.3 million (50.5%) out of 65.3 lakh disabled persons in the same age group reported attending educational institutions. Conditions have improved with an increase of about 11 percentage of the disabled persons attending schools in the age group 5-19 during the decade 2001-2011.
It is further noticed that disabled persons with ‘any other disability’ show the highest percentage (71.2%) in attending educational institution followed by ‘seeing’ (68%), ‘hearing’ (67%), ‘movement’ (59.6%), ‘speech’ (58.9%), ‘mental retardation’ (47.2%), ‘multiple disability’ (37.2%) and least with ‘mental illness’ (34.1%).
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