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Dropout rate alarming in Telangana schools
Telangana government’s stringent measures to reduce the dropout rate from government schools seem to have failed in achieving the desired results.
Hyderabad: Telangana government’s stringent measures to reduce the dropout rate from government schools seem to have failed in achieving the desired results.
Even as the school education department succeeded in increasing the enrollment ratio, the most backward district in the state, Mahbubnagar, continued to witness the highest dropout rate. Nearly 50 per cent of the students studying in government educational institutions up to Class X have quit school midway.
While Adilabad district stood second registering 44.83 per cent dropout rate followed by Medak (43.69 per cent) and Warangal (41.41 per cent), the lowest dropout rate (28. 11) has been registered in Ranga Reddy district.
A report –‘ Telangana Statistical Year- 2016’, released by the state government, disclosed that the average dropout rate in Telangana was 37.56 per cent. Over all, the dropout rate of boys was high at 38.76 when compared to 36.31 per cent among girls. T
he dropout rate between Class I to V was 19.25 per cent and 31.14 per cent between Class I and VIII. However, the report indicated that in Mahbubnagar, the dropout rate among girls was higher with 50.33 per cent and the boys 49.34 per cent.
Officials attributed the main reason for such a huge dropout rate in the district was persisting poverty and increased migration of families to other areas for livelihood.
Schools established in far flung areas away from their dwellings are one of the main reasons for the second highest dropout rate in the tribal dominated Adilabad district.
Renowned educationist Professor G Haragopal linked the dropouts to the intensified agrarian crisis in the state. Unable to cope up with family burden, farm workers turned their kids in to child labour, thereby forcing poor students to quit education.
The only option before government to curb dropouts is opening of residential schools in areas where the dropout rate is high and encourage poor children to pursue regular studies, he said.
TSUTF (Telangana State United Teachers Federation) General Secretary Cava Ravi said that the absence of teachers in schools was one of the major worrying factors for the increase in dropouts.
The other reasons were most of the students left school only during agricultural seasons as their families migrated to other places as farm labourers for better livelihood.
By: Patan Afzal Babu
