The Hyderabad Unit of the Students Islamic Organisation of India has demanded from the state government to implement the Right to Education Act across the state and provide better facilities in schools. Turning down the government’s estimate that only three lakh children in the state are not enrolled in schools, the organisation claimed that the actual figure is around 18 lakh. “The state Human Development Report 2007 stated that about 12 lakh children of the ages 6 to14 were out of school in the state. NGO statistics put the number at 18 lakh,” said Iqbal Hussain, member of SIO, at a press conference on 30 June. Government schools are ill-equipped and many children drop out mainly due to lack of infrastructure, he added. He pointed out that at present there is also a shortage of 12-13 lakh school teachers across the state in various government schools.
SIO HYDERABAD FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF RTE
The Hyderabad Unit of the Students Islamic Organisation of India has demanded from the state government to implement the Right to Education Act across the state and provide better facilities in schools. Turning down the government’s estimate that only three lakh children in the state are not enrolled in schools,
