Lack of education among Anglo-Indians a matter of concern

Updated on: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Lack of education in the dwindling Anglo-Indian community remained a major concern and All Indian Anglo-Indian Association (AIAIA) was initiating steps to encourage children to enrol their names in schools.

A member of Governing body of AIAIA as well as the Jharkhand state chief of the association, Glen Galstaun, who is also a nominated member in the Jharkhand Assembly, said the children of the community were deprived of basic education due
to various reasons, including poverty.

The community, which has a population of five to six thousand in the state, was lagging behind because of lack of education, he said adding that AIAIA, Jharkhand chapter, was doing its possible best to motivate children to go the school.

"We are making all possible arrangement for them and trying to provide them education free of cost", Galstaun said elaborating that he himself has taken responsibility of 16 poor children and bearing their education expenses.

Besides, he said, AIAIA, Jharkhand unit, has taken up with the state government to provide old-age pension to countable poor members of the community.

Admitting that AIAIA has the responsibility to motive children of the community as far as their education was concerned, Gelstaun said AIAIA was also making efforts to revive defunct AIAIA units in the state.

"We have AIAIA district committee functioning in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chakradharpur (West Singhbhum) whereas our Dhanbad and Mccluskieganj, which was the only place in the country having Anglo-Indian colony, were defunct at present", he said.

Lack of education among Anglo-Indians a matter of concern

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