OUT –OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN IN INDIA: THE STORY IN NUMBERS
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This paper is deliberate to give a clear understanding of situation of out-of-school children in India in the light of national goal of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) i.e. MDG-2 and goal of elimination of gender disparity. Statistics used in this paper is of survey conducted by SRI-IMBR, NSSO, and census of India in year 2014. The basic theme of the paper is based on the critical analysis of the statistical estimation of Out-of-school children done by the different institutions which engaged in gathering data of out-of-school children from all over the country. A clears disparity can be seen in the data of different institutions. This paper also highlights the cause of disparities among the data.
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