<p>Though, about 25 children began their first day of school at Sarada Vilasa Government Primary and High School at Kanakagiri near Vidyaranyapuram here, none of the students turned out to be a genuine case of school dropouts. About 25 students took admission at the school out of which only two turned out to be a new admissions, while others are a regular school goers. <br /><br />When Deccan Herald spoke to Cheluvaraji, mother of Santhosh, who was going to attend first standard, said that they wanted to admit the boy to school. <br /><br />Even before that, the minister came and completed the formaility of the admission at the doorstep. Our boy is provided with text books and school uniforms. Our daughter is also a student of government school studying in class V,” she said. Her husband Jayaram runs a small chat business on roadside. <br /><br />In the second case, the education department authorities registered Sujan Rao, a student who had completed class VII as a school drop out being given admission to class VIII in the government school. <br /><br />Ironically, the parents said they did not want their lad to study in the Government school, even as Ramdas and his brigade took the boy to the school, filled his name in the application for admission to class VIII. <br /><br />“Our kid has completed class VII from Vani Vidya Mandira. We wish that he attends higher classes at the same school. We did not take admission so far because the High school fee is Rs 2500. If the minister wants to help us, let him stretch a helping hand in paying fees. Otherwise, we will pay the fees on our own, even though it may mean raising a loan or something,” Sujan’s parents Saroja and Lakshman Rao couple said, adding with determination that there was no way their son would attend government school. <br /><br />Talking to reporters, Ramdas said a similar programme was being held across the all the Assembly constituencies where the local MLAs will bring the drop outs identified to the local schools. <br /><br />When contacted, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) Nagendra Kumar said a programme akin to this one was being held at Narasimharaja constituency where two students were admitted to school.<br /><br />When asked for the statistics on number of school drop outs identified under the programme, he said the police department had not shared any such statistics with the education department but the survey of the drop outs was being done in all villages in taluks in cooperation with police. <br /><br /> “However, we have our own survey report done last year which identifies 1650 drop outs in the district,” he said. <br /><br />Contrary<br /><br />On the contrary, Superintendent of Police Manish Kharbiker said his personnel in districts was only doing regular beat duty visiting every house. <br /><br />“Collecting data on school drop outs is not our duty. Such database is available with DDPI. The strength of the district police in each of the police station limits is very less compared to the distances and number of villages falling under it,” the SP said and added that teachers also did not accompany any beat police as schools have begun last week.</p>
<p>Though, about 25 children began their first day of school at Sarada Vilasa Government Primary and High School at Kanakagiri near Vidyaranyapuram here, none of the students turned out to be a genuine case of school dropouts. About 25 students took admission at the school out of which only two turned out to be a new admissions, while others are a regular school goers. <br /><br />When Deccan Herald spoke to Cheluvaraji, mother of Santhosh, who was going to attend first standard, said that they wanted to admit the boy to school. <br /><br />Even before that, the minister came and completed the formaility of the admission at the doorstep. Our boy is provided with text books and school uniforms. Our daughter is also a student of government school studying in class V,” she said. Her husband Jayaram runs a small chat business on roadside. <br /><br />In the second case, the education department authorities registered Sujan Rao, a student who had completed class VII as a school drop out being given admission to class VIII in the government school. <br /><br />Ironically, the parents said they did not want their lad to study in the Government school, even as Ramdas and his brigade took the boy to the school, filled his name in the application for admission to class VIII. <br /><br />“Our kid has completed class VII from Vani Vidya Mandira. We wish that he attends higher classes at the same school. We did not take admission so far because the High school fee is Rs 2500. If the minister wants to help us, let him stretch a helping hand in paying fees. Otherwise, we will pay the fees on our own, even though it may mean raising a loan or something,” Sujan’s parents Saroja and Lakshman Rao couple said, adding with determination that there was no way their son would attend government school. <br /><br />Talking to reporters, Ramdas said a similar programme was being held across the all the Assembly constituencies where the local MLAs will bring the drop outs identified to the local schools. <br /><br />When contacted, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) Nagendra Kumar said a programme akin to this one was being held at Narasimharaja constituency where two students were admitted to school.<br /><br />When asked for the statistics on number of school drop outs identified under the programme, he said the police department had not shared any such statistics with the education department but the survey of the drop outs was being done in all villages in taluks in cooperation with police. <br /><br /> “However, we have our own survey report done last year which identifies 1650 drop outs in the district,” he said. <br /><br />Contrary<br /><br />On the contrary, Superintendent of Police Manish Kharbiker said his personnel in districts was only doing regular beat duty visiting every house. <br /><br />“Collecting data on school drop outs is not our duty. Such database is available with DDPI. The strength of the district police in each of the police station limits is very less compared to the distances and number of villages falling under it,” the SP said and added that teachers also did not accompany any beat police as schools have begun last week.</p>
