The Importance of Child Education in India and the Measures Taken by Care India
More than 17 million children in India work in different sectors instead of being in schools. And 90 % of them hail from rural India where poverty tends to reign supreme. The only way to lift a generation out of poverty and ensure that the subsequent generations do not fall back is through education and India is still struggling to find the right foot in keeping its children in schools. More than half of all Indian children aged between 6 to 14 years do not go to schools and only one-third of those who enroll reach grade eight successfully by not dropping out. This picture has improved, given the government’s initiatives and the development sector’s hard work, but more effort is certainly the need of the hour. What is the importance of child education in India? The primary benefit that child education can bring to the country is to uplift vast sections of people out of poverty. Educated sections are employable and India can progress as a whole. Second, studies show that children ...