• ALPICA TRIPATHI

ABSTRACT Childs Education Right: Is Right to Education benefited the Slum Dwellers Children in India ALPICA TRIPATHI RESEARCH SCHOLAR UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW, LUCKNOW alpica.tripathi@gmail.com 9450757694 The large-scale presence of deprived children is a symptom of the disease that is widespread due to exploitative structure, lopsided development and iniquitous resource ownership. At the time when they should have enjoyed childhood, spontaneity, freedom, games and study with peers; it is a pity they have to struggle hard and sacrifice their entire childhood for their mere survival. These children suffer from the worst kind of deprivation and denial of basic necessities such as education, health, food, shelter, physical protection, security and recreation. These children are susceptible to drug/alcoholic addiction and to inhalants, such as cobbler’s glue, correction fluid, gold/silver spray paint, nail polish, rubber cement etc., which offers them an escape from reality and takes away hunger. In exchange, they invite a host of physical and psychological problems, including hallucinations, kidney failure and irreversible brain damage. Many of these kids eventually turn into hardened criminals controlled by organized crime rings for drug trafficking, prostitution and other unlawful activities, thus placing a heavy burden on the law and order machinery. These children are over age and have never gone to school or are dropouts; hence their integration straight into formal schools may pose problems, and may lead to aversion towards education. The teaching materials and methods may be unsuitable for their level. The Primary Education System in its present form is unacceptable, unrealistic and unreachable to the children of poor, downtrodden and slum dwellers. It is an established fact that work can keep children away from school but at the same time, poor quality of education often causes children to drop-out/ push out of schools and they start working at an early age. The sheer denial of education reinforces their lower status not only in the society but also in the eyes of their parents. We believe in the principle that “Education as a burning torch sheds away the darkness of ignorance.” Hope for solving the massive social problems associated with urban poverty appears to centre increasingly on improvement in the methods of educating the culturally deprived children of the slums.

Education, Slum Dwellers, Lopsided development, Drop-out

"Childs Education Right: Is Right to Education benefited the Slum Dwellers Children in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.726-731, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907409.pdf

"Childs Education Right: Is Right to Education benefited the Slum Dwellers Children in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp726-731, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907409.pdf