Education continues to be an unattainable dream for all the children in Telangana, where enrolment rates are inversely proportionate to the child’s age, as revealed in an analysis by the Child Rights and You (CRY), a not-for-profit organisation (NPO) working in the area of child rights.
Obtaining numbers from multiple sources such as Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE Plus), National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), CRY analysed the status of girl children on multiple parameters ahead of the National Girl Child Day on January 24. The report titled ‘Status report on key concerns of the girl child’ was released on Friday.
CRY is organising a walk on January 21 on the PVNR Marg to highlight the issues of concern for the girl children, titled ‘Walk to EmpowHER!’. The walk is being organised simultaneously in Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Bengaluru, senior manager of CRY, B. Chennaiah informed. Numbers show that more than 40% girls at the secondary level and more than 55% at higher secondary level are out of schools, even though the girl enrolment at elementary level is better.
