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Assam to combat terror by tackling school dropouts—Kinda late ain’t it?
February 04, 2007
Guwahati: The Assam government has decided to fight the festering insurgency by
tackling under-development and high dropout rates among school students, the
two main reasons for breeding militancy in the state. Heard all this many times
before. "Youths(I say –mind your English) in many of the backward areas and
school dropouts(US lingo) are the two most vulnerable segments of the society
that are joining militant groups. So our thrust is now to address these two
major problems to fight insurgency," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told
journalists here. Also heard this- Nth timeGogoi said a sizeable ???portion of
the Rs.38-billion annual plan money for the next fiscal (2007-08) would be
utilized DEFINE for development in insurgency-infested (Language!!)areas. "We
have identified such areas which are prone to insurgency and are backward in
terms of economic development. A number of well thought out schemes would be
implemented in these areas to tackle the menace of insurgency Ha Ha ," the
chief minister said. "The aim is to fight insurgency through development." A
central government report reveals(Assam Govt agrees? )that seven out of every
10 children joining schools in the state do not complete their elementary
education, while less than five( actually <1%) percent of the??? students
actually complete college education. The nationwide average of school dropouts
is 58 percent as against 71 percent in Assam.( See-Assam is MORE!!)"We are
worried indeed with the dropout rates and need to reverse this trend soon if we
are to win the battle over insurgency," the chief minister said. The government
would also focus on agriculture and education by allocating funds from the
annual plan. "The idea is to attract more private investments and thereby
double the income of our farmers in the long run," Gogoi added. How are these 4
linked??"In the education sector, we shall offer special incentives to those
who set up institutions with facilities for vocational training."He said his
government was contemplating a nodal agency for providing micro credit to
people below the poverty line."Banks are not doing much in terms of offering
micro finances. We shall soon open an agency that exclusively deals with micro
credit," the chief minister said.Gogoi had met Nobel Peace laureate and
progenitor of the world's micro credit movement, Muhammad Yunus, in New Delhi
earlier this week."Yunus assured me that he would visit Assam When did He?and
give us vital tips to carry forward the system that we are planning," he said.
(IANS) (BJP/AASU will shout- Bangladeshis sabotaging at vital corners
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:36:56 -0800From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]: [Assam] Data for FASS: Assam's primary school dropout rate
30%http://www.indiaedunews.net/Assam/Assam_to_combat_terror_by_tackling_school_dropouts_388/Data
collected for Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters
FASShttp://friendsofassam.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=6&Itemid=42Apparent
Survival rate Page 36 of 62 Elementary Education (Primary)
http://www.dpepmis.org/ar2005.html ( DPEP MIS 2005-06 State Report Cards -
Table D21) (Def: if 100 enroll in grade how many graduate from grade
5)Arunanchal Pradesh - 35%Assam - 64%Bihar - 46% (for comparison)Manipur -
40%Meghalaya - 38%Mijoram - 71%Nagaland - 51%Punjab- 94% (for
comparison)Rajasthan - 54% (for comparison)Tamil Nadu - 97% (for
comparison)Tripura - 71%ALL India districts - 70%Primary/elementary School Age
Children out of school/not in correct grade level (Table D30)(Def: 100- NER =
school age children out of school/not in correct grade
http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/aid/aid98/education/tab3.html for NER
[Net Enrollment Ratio] definition
)-------------------------------------------------------Arunanchal -- -
(minus) 11% (how can it be negative -- NER is 111% of school age children are
enrolled)Assam --- 12% out of school/not of relevant school ageBihar ----
16% (for comparison)Delhi ---- 35% (for comparison -- shows
possibility of data fudging by other states)Manipur -- minus 2%Meghalaya -
6%Mijoram ---- minus 11%Nagaland --- minus 10%Puducherry -- 45% (for
comparison)Punjab -- 49% (for comparison)Rajasthan -- 18% (for
comparison)Tamil Nadu --- 12% (for comparison)Tripura --- minus 21% All India
Districts --- 15% Umesh SharmaWashington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell]Ed.M. -
International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard
University,Class of 2005http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu
info)http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the
above 2 are used
)http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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