RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Dear All

Now the Right to Education (RTE) has gained the priority and all the stakeholders are putting their best efforts in doing justice to the rights of the children.

In this direction, Sarva Shikha Abiyan (SSA) or RVM is the mission to achieve this target. It has created significant impact and progress in this direction and there a lot to do. It is the fact that several children are out of the school due to various reasons. Some of the reasons includes:

• Children with developmental disabilities
• Children infected / affected with HIV/AIDS
• Children with livelihoods both inside and out side i.e. child labourers
• Children migrated on various reasons
• Children abused 
• Children with early marriages manly girls
• Children with other vulnerabilities.

What ever may be the reason, several children are out of the school and more significantly the girl children.

In view of the International and national Acts and Policies, it i the right of the children to get education and is the responsibility of every one as we all believe that education is the best channel of empowerment which improves their employability. This further improves their better living both socially and economically with sustainability and quaity of life (QOL). 

In this direction, the process is going on to selected the NGOs as the resource cum training center for purposes like:

• Create Data Base with community based mapping both to enroll in and to know their position i.e. either in school or out of school
• Create awareness for the children, parents, family members and other community members in respect of need of education and existing schemes & benefits,
• Advocacy and orientation training to teachers both normal and special, volunteers and other stakeholders,
• Identification of the children who are out of school and making assessment cum screening,
• Categorizing them into Groups based on their vulnerability,
• School preparedness,
• Mainstreaming based on age appropriateness,
• Monitoring and evaluation and 
• Facilitation and networking.

This is the need based programme  and will be modified based on the skills, needs and vulnerability of the children.

It is the most needy approach to keep the children in the school with need and community based strategies and interventions. NGOs with better coordination and support of GO ca raise to the occasion for the achieving the RTE for all the children.     

Looking forward

All the best