The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has written to the State government to ensure that all the children studying SSLC in all schools in the State appear for the SSLC examinations. The examination is scheduled to begin on March 25.
“It is very alarming that one lakh children among the children enrolled in SSLC are not appearing for the SSLC examination,” member Sashidhara Kosambe said. He has written a letter to the State government with a complaint that over one lakh children who were in Class 10 had not filed applications for the SSLC examinations.
“There is a difference of 1,00,010 students who have enrolled in various schools for SSLC and those who have filled the examination forms. We think that the main reasons behind this are child marriage of girls and child labour of boys and girls. Other reasons are extreme poverty, backwardness and lack of awareness among parents,’‘ he said.
