MUMBAI: Over 1,900 children in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) were found to have dropped out of formal education in the two years of pandemic. Migration and financial difficulties had taken away these children’s right to education.
The ‘Mission Zero Dropout’ drive undertaken by the state school education department from July 5-20 also identified 808 children in the 3-18 age group in the metropolitan region who have never been to school. A state survey had found over 25,000 children who had either dropped out of school last year or not been to one during the pandemic.
