More school dropouts in Sullia

Updated on: Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Nearly half of the number of school dropouts in Dakshina Kannada district are from Sullia, according to the Child Census 2011, says a handout of statistics from the Department of Public Instruction at a meeting in the zilla panchayat in the city on Monday.

Students seen as dropouts are those who do not attend school for more than 60 days. At the time of the census, there were 30. After that, 17 of them have been brought to school, said M. Swamy, Block Education Officer (BEO), Sullia.

Illiterate

He said that of the 30 children, parents of 25 were illiterate and did not send their children to school.

Five students had migrated to Sullia for work in the plantations and had moved on once the work was over, he said.

The handout said that of the 62 dropouts, Sullia accounted for 30, followed by Puttur (9), Bantwal and Belthangady (8 each), and 7 from Moodbidri.

There were no school dropouts from Mangalore city and taluk., it said

The dropout rate at the district level was 0.06 per cent, it said.

Ratio

In the district, 2,73,555 students enrolled in schools in 2010-11 as against 3,14,220 students in 2001-02. Attendance at the district level is 99.25 per cent. The student to teacher ratio has changed from 37:1 to 23:1 now.

There is a primary school within 1 km and a higher secondary school within 3 km from 1,734 colonies.

Abhiyaan

This is one of the aims of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (implemented during 2001-02).

There are 5,054 special children for whom seven special resource centres have been set up. Of them, 605 children get education at home.

Primary schools have received a grant of Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 25,000 for building maintenance per year.

Fund

A sum of Rs. 67 lakh was spent last year on libraries in government schools and on book melas to enable schools to buy books.

In the district, 118 schools have computer laboratories., the handout said.

Recruitment

One hundred and eighty one (181) teachers have been recruited for primary schools and 191 higher secondary schools have been upgraded to high schools (8,910).

Allowance

All teachers have been granted an allowance of Rs. 500 per year for training for 20 days a year.

J. Krishna Palemar, Minister for Ports and District-in-charge, Abhaychandra Jain, MLA, Moodabidri, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) Moses Jayashekhar, block education officers (BEOs) and teachers from government schools from the district attended the meeting.

More school dropouts in Sullia

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