Tag: School Drop Out

Lack of awareness among parents, absence of teachers in schools in the tribal dominated areas and pathetic road condition makes it difficult to complete High School education for the locals.

Bhubaneswar: It seems that the nationwide campaign ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ has failed to generate desired results in Odisha as over 55,000 adolescent girls are out of school in the State. Such startling facts emerged from a baseline survey conducted by Odisha Women and Child Development department and Mission Shakti. However, School and Mass Education […]

Bhubaneswar: Though Odisha has effectively brought down the school drop-out rate in primary and upper Primary to around 6 per cent and 7 per cent, respectively, in 2018-19 from a high of 38 per cent and 56 per cent in 2002-03, respectively, the drop-out rate of girls, it is still in double digits in the […]