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Campaign to bring back at least four lakh girls who dropped out of school

-The Hindu

New generation anganwadis to exclude 11-14-year-olds; focus shifting to 14-18-year-olds

The Centre is launching a back-to-school campaign to bring at least four lakh young girls who are out of school into the formal education system.

Under the new Saksham Anganwadi scheme of the Women and Child Development Ministry, these 11-14-year-old girls will no longer receive anganwadi support, as the focus shifts to 14-18-year-olds, Women and Child Development (WCD) Secretary Indevar Pandey said at an event on Monday.

The campaign to enrol them into schools will be driven by anganwadi workers in collaboration with district education officers, supported by tracking systems used by the WCD and Education Ministries, he added.

A UNICEF survey of 50,000 Indian adolescents during the COVID pandemic, also released at the same event, reported that while 90% of respondents were currently enrolled in school, a third of them knew of at least one girl who had dropped out. The dropouts were either engaged in domestic work or had gotten married, said UNICEF India Representative Yasumasa Kimura. He added that at least a third of these girls wished to return to school, with respondents suggesting strategies to convince parents, to ensure girls' safety in school and on the commute, and to provide better awareness of Government programmes.

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