• Dr.Nazia Jamal

In 1989 UNICEF estimated that there are around 100 million street children in urban areas around the world (Campos et al. 1994). The same international agency after fourteen years again claims that the number of children living on urban streets is as high as 100 million (UNICEF, 2002:37); whereas in 2005 the report of the similar agency accepts that it is impossible to quantify the exact number of street children but the figure is close to tens of millions across the world and is continuously increasing day by day with growing urbanisation and population. But these figures and estimations are questioned by various authors from time to time; first by Scanlon et al (1998), Panter Brick (2002) then by (Thomas De Benitez, 2007) in his report “The State Of The World Street Children Violence”, and later by Ayuku 2003, Sauve 2003, Dillion 2008, Wexler 2010 etc. The main argument or reason for which they criticised and questioned these estimates is that they say very large estimates draws the attention of the governments and policymakers thus hereby resulting in attracting huge allocation of funds and also to draw the attention to the need of agency’s work. Hence this paper attempts to find out the trend pattern and estimates of street children in lucknow. The paper is based on extensive primary field data to find out the outcomes. In order to understand the trends, pattern and further to calculate the estimates a sample of 10360 street children was selected and surveyed to understand how worse is their economic condition.

TREND PATTERN AND ESTIMATES OF STREET CHILDREN IN LUCKNOW

"TREND PATTERN AND ESTIMATES OF STREET CHILDREN IN LUCKNOW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.e741-e762, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108581.pdf

"TREND PATTERN AND ESTIMATES OF STREET CHILDREN IN LUCKNOW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppe741-e762, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108581.pdf