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For almost 15 million migrant children, education remains a luxury -Navya PK

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Sushil was attending 10th standard at the school in his village, when his parents decided to move to a city. They had found seasonal work in a brick kiln there. Sushil’s only option was to move to the kiln site and work alongside his parents. He had given up hopes of completing high school education, when he realised that other child labourers at the kiln were going to a ‘classroom’ located within the site.

This learning centre was set up by Aide et Action, an NGO that works for the education of migrant children. Sushil attended classes there, and later, the centre manager persuaded his parents to let him return to his village to write his 10th standard exams. Sushil’s parents agreed, and he scored 67% in the exams. If he’d not been lucky enough to find the learning centre, Sushil would have ended up like the millions of migrant children in India who drop out of school due to the compulsion of their circumstances.

Migrant children remain highly neglected, so much so that there is little official data about them. As per the 2011 Census, there are 453 million internal migrants in India overall, i.e., over one-third of the population. Within the internal migrant population, the number of seasonal migrants would total about 100 million, various studies estimate.

‘Social inclusion of internal migrants in India’, a UNESCO report of 2013, cites that the number of migrant children is estimated to be 15 million.

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