Bringing dropouts to school: JEEVIKA effort at Umariya!

Even though India has achieved almost 100 per cent access to school for its children at the primary level, it has a high 40 per cent drop-out rate at the elementary level a news from India today states it on 14th Nov 2013. Lets see how with JEEVIKA (which is primarily a livelihood programme works on bringing back dropouts? Reduce in school dropouts also indicates migration is declining!

Village- Maliyaguda

Cluster Coordinator- Pratap Paraste

Beneficiary- Kishan Singh

Father's Name- Indrapal Singh. Mother's Name- Smt. Lakshmi Bai

Age- 18 years

Brothers- 2 younger

Economic condition- very poor

Kishan Singh is the son of Shri Indrapal Singh residing at Maliyaguda. Kishan Singh is the elder son of Indrapal singh. He has completed his basic education at the village but due to poor economic condition of the family he could not continue his education. As he is the eldor son there is responsibility of family on his shoulders that is why he engaged in agriculture labor and used to go for loborship at brick making. As he was engaged in earning livelihood he could not be able to continue his studies. Then one day Pratap Paraste one of our laborious Jeevika staff met with Kishan Singh and came to know about the situation. Pratap then decided to talk with his parents and went to his home. He told his parents about the importance of education and advised them to be free from his responsibilities and support him to continue his education. Pratap also guided Kishan to continue his education. After continuous efforts made by Pratap Kishan understand the importance of education and decided to continue his education. He then took admission in 12th class this year in high school at Rampur. He is regularly going to school and escaped from being drop out.

Kishan says,"Main krishi majduri me lage hua tha aur beech me Majduri karne ke liye Ent bhatte par jaya karta tha. Ek din Pratap Sir mujhse mile aur unhone mujhe shiksha ke mehatva ke bare me samjhaya. Pahle toh meri samajh me unki baat nai aai par unhone lagataar kai baar mujhse milkar padhai puri karne kaha aur mere ghar par bhi mata pita ko samjhaya. Tab jakar unki baat meri samjh me aai aur maine padhai puri karne ka nishchay liya. Aaj mai kaksha 12 me pravesh le chukka hu aur roj school jata hu. Pratap sir ki wajah se hi mai aaj apni padhai puri karne ki than chukka hu nai toh mai majduri me hi laga rahta"

By JEEVIKA Umariya ( JDSS-Jabalpur team)on 7th July 2014