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Only 8% of minority students attend schools for minority communities, NCPCR report says -Kritika Sharma

-ThePrint.in

NCPCR report, which analyses data from 23,487 minority schools across the country, says a little over 37% of total students in minority schools belong to these communities.

New Delhi: Only 8 per cent of a total 4,81,91,351 children from minority communities, aged between 5 and 15, attend schools for minority communities, a report by the National Council for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found.

Furthermore, just over 37 per cent (38,44,074) of students enrolled in these schools belong to minority communities, with non-minority groups making up the majority of the student population.

For the report, released Tuesday, the NCPCR conducted a nation-wide survey of schools catering to Muslims, Christians, Jains, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsis and other linguistic minorities including madrasas.

Titled ‘Impact of exemption under Article 15 (5) w.r.t Article 21A of the Constitution of India on education of children of the minority communities’, the report analysed data from 23,487 minority schools across the country, followed by discussions with experts.

“It is pertinent to note that Article 15(5) empowers the government to form any policy for the upliftment of socially backward class, thus forming the basis of affirmative action in private unaided schools in India. However, since it has been made inapplicable to minority schools along with the RTE Act (Article 21A), the study aimed to understand the impact of their exemption on the children,” the report said.

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