• Manas Upadhyay

The children residing in slums lack adequate access to quality education and usually they fail to take advantage of several programmes launched by the government. Consequently, the drop-out rate is quite high among the slum children, which invariably makes them unsuitable for several jobs and they tend to remain unemployed. As a result, a large proportion of these children drift towards delinquency. In the last few decades after the considerable research and experimentation in the context of education of these socially deprived children, it has been realised by the educators that major changes are needed to incorporated in the educational policies and programming in order to provide better quality schooling to these slum children. This paper is purely based on the secondary sources in which various governmental reports and several other institutional reports as well as journal, articles, books and other web sources have been consulted. This paper is mainly focusing on the various issues and challenges which are being face by children living in slums and several suggestions have been made in this paper in order to address the challenges of slum dwellers, particularly in context of education.

Education, slum children, policies and programmes and schools.

"Overreaching Educational Themes and Concerns in Urban Slums", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.386-393, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901553.pdf

"Overreaching Educational Themes and Concerns in Urban Slums", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp386-393, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901553.pdf