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Himanshi Dhawan, TNN | May 31, 2012, 02.02AM IST
NEW DELHI: Delhi's boast of being a world class city starts to ring hollow when it comes to social indices, especially education. Studies show that the number of out-of-school Muslim children has increased from zero to 46,073 in the capital between 2005 and 2009. Delhi is joined by 12 states including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand in this hall of shame.
This comes at a time when the average out-of-school Muslim children have come down from 9.97% in 2005 to 7.6% in 2009.
A study done by International Marketing Research Bureau (IMRB) for the HRD ministry to assess the number of out-of-school children found that the estimated number between ages of 6-13 years declined from 134.6 lakh in 2005 to 81.5 lakh in 2009. Of these, the number of out of school Muslim children have come down from 22.5 lakh to 18.7 lakh in the same period. However, in Delhi, the number of children out of school increased from none in 2005 to 46,073 in 2009.
Uttar Pradesh saw a sharp increase in the four year period from 7.8 lakh students out of school to 10.4 lakh. In Uttarakhand, the number increased from 1,161 to 35,353 while in Rajasthan, Muslim children who were not in school increased from 26,671 to 38,360.
In Arunachal Pradesh the number of children out of school jumped from none to 357 while in Chhattisgarh the number increased from zero to 1,045. Gujarat witnessed a hike from 19,678 to 26,285 students while Jharkhand also recorded an increase of 2,798 to 18,167 Muslim children who were not enrolled in school. Meghalaya, Tripura and Puducherry also saw an increase in numbers.
Concerned over this trend and a lack of qualified Urdu teachers, the HRD ministry has set the National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education and five sub-committees on girl's education, promotion of Urdu language, mapping of educational requirements of Muslim minorities and implementation of schemes aimed for minorities. The reports are expected within 3 months.
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