Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 3
First page : ( 77) Last page : ( 85)
Online ISSN : 2249-7315.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2249-7315.2016.00030.7

Is Dropout exists at Lower Elementary Level of Government Schools? A Study in Assam

Upadhyaya Amar

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India

Online published on 4 March, 2016.

Abstract

The problem of dropout in the Elementary Education in India is a quite out dated issue as the Right to education (RTE) Act has already in action since 2010. The access of elementary education has highly been available for the all children of the age group 6–14 years in the country. But the elementary section for our country has not been freed from the problem of dropout in elementary level. As per the report of UNESCO 2015 we have achieved the goal of universal enrolment at elementary level. But are we able to sustain this enrollment? Do our all children able to pursue their education after being enrolled or do they dropout on the way itself? India had launched the most ambitions education project since independence, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) in 2001 under which primary education was to be provided to all children by 2007. The present study is highly significant to prove the effective implementation of RTE in the schools of rural areas and more specially in the tea garden schools. The investigator had selected 10 primary schools by purposive sampling and survey method was used for the study. The study found there was a significant percentage of Dropout rates prevailed in the sampled primary schools which is really a great concern for the society. The study has made few recommendations on the basis its findings.

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Keywords

Drop-out, Elementary level, government schools, Assam.

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