• Over 3 million children living on the streets?
  • Over 150 million children working as bonded laborers
  • One out of every six girl child does not live to see her 15th birthday
  • Despite having a national policy for compulsory primary education, only 50% of children have access to education
  • 82% of Indian children study in Govt. school
  • 35% of children in the age group 7 – 14 cannot read simple sentences
  • 50% children from standard II to V cannot perform simple 2 digit subtraction
  • Average teacher attendance is about 75% while that if students is less than 70% 
  • Only 66% schools have drinking water facility, while only 45% have functional toilets
  • 26% schools have no blackboards
  • 77% schools have no library
     

 

 

 

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