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A government school in Ranchi on Monday
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It will soon be bye-bye labour, hello schools well, camp schools in this case for nearly 24,000 dropouts in Ranchi.
Officials of Ranchi district administration on Monday said that they would soon introduce special camp schools and bridge courses to spread awareness about education and get children back to school.
According to the proposed plans, the camp schools would be set up everywhere near railway stations, bus stops, autorickshaw stands, eateries where children were found working as menial labourers.
Each camp school would accommodate no more than 25 children, who would be put in charge of one teacher. Classes would be held for six days in a week for two hours daily. The camp schools will be open for dropouts of all ages.
The bridge courses, however, has been designed specifically for students who dropped out between Classes VI to VIII. The students will be prepped according to their individual IQ levels with the aim of getting them to join from where they had left in schools. These courses would be run out of local community halls or rented rooms.
According to officials, all the plans would be put into action by the end of this month after the district education officials convened a final meeting in this regard on July 10.
The aim is to get the children back into the mainstream, to schools, so that they can complete their education, Ranchi district education officer Maheep Kumar said.
Kumar added that they were also mulling the idea of improving the quality of education being doled out at various government schools by organising monthly workshops for the teachers.
The dropout rates, he claimed, was alarming between Classes I to VIII but negligible at the Class IX level.
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