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ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING/INTERVENTION FOR THE OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN

AIE | Bridge Course | Rabindra Open Schooling  | DUC

Sl. no.

Category of Alternative Innovative Education Centre(AIE)

No. of centres

No. of Learners

No. of Tutors

1

Non Residential Bridge Course Centres

146

2665

146

2

 Residential Bridge Course Centres

5

216

10

3

Rabindra Open Schooling

89

4359

255

4

NGO run AIE

5

235

10

5

Deprived Urban Children

134

3844

129

6

Madrasa/Maktab

30

1037

37

TOTAL

409

12356

587
  1. Structural base has been developed in every Gram Sansad and Ward areas by forming Village Education & Health Committee (VEHC) and Ward Education & Health Committee (WEHC).
  2. The VEHCs and WEHCs have been financially empowered by providing fund to their bank account. Fund pertaining to infrastructure development, enrolment drive and micro-planning exercise etc. have been give to VEHC and WEHC for ensuring their involvement.
  3. Capacity of the VEHC/WEHC members has been built up by organizing intensive training every year.
  4. A data base in the name of Child Register is maintained at the VEHC/WEHC level to ensure access, enrolment and retention.
  5. MTA and PTA has been formed under the leadership of V/WEHC for sharing of classroom process and achievement of the children.
  6. In order to ensure infrastructure development a convergence strategy among Panchyat, School, DPSC and Municipal bodies has been developed.

·         BHARTI SUNISCHITKARAN KARMASUCHI-2009 has been conducted in 2009 for identification of the out-of-school children. As per the survey 15001 no. of children have been identified outside the periphery of educational scenario. Taking this into consideration a special enrolment drive in the name of BHARTI SUNISCHITKARAN KARMASUCHI-2010 is going on in our district to enroll these children and thereby identify the residual out-of-school children.

·         The name, age and the reasons of being out of school children are identified and steps taken to enroll them either in formal schools or non-formal centres. The report will be available after completion of data entry.

·         3 days residential and 3 days non-residential training of 6 members of each VEHC and WEHC will be conducted in 2010 to aware the said members regarding the manifold activities of SSM.

·         3 days non-residential training for 4 GP/MC/MP members will be conducted in 2010.

Out of school children could belong to remote school less habitations, viz.:-

 

 The concept of Alternative Schooling (AS)

Working children  

The concept of Alternative Schooling (AS) has emerged throughout the country with the view to ensure universal access. Because, the formal primary school could not reach to every child due to its rigid norms and frame this was set by the State Government. Alternative System of education has to be treated as a complimentary system of education to formal primary education. Especially in our uneven socio-eco-geographic condition. However, the Alternative Schooling has always been questioned on several grounds and perhaps this ideological and conceptual debate will continue in future.

Moreover, the opportunity of AS has to be utilized in the context of UPE as because the opportunity speaks for the deprived children and the children of difficult circumstances to whom formal primary school is not access in the no. of reasons.

In addition to the SSKs and MSKs there are provisions of the following schemes under SSM:

(i)  Bridge Course Centre,

(ii) NGO run EGS (presently AIE) Centres,

(iii) Rabindra Open Schooling &

(iv) Centre for the Deprived Urban Children.
Street Children
Deprived Children in Urban Slums
Bonded child labourers
Children of sex workers
Girls belonging to the minority community
Girls involved in domestic chores or sibling case
Children engaged in cattle grazing etc.
Things to be done
Identification of out of school children from Child Register

Compilation of the out of school children as per Sansad/Ward wise
Awareness of the parents
Mainstreaming these children in formal school (if possible)
Submission of concrete proposal & plan of action (if EGS then with the help of NGO) through CLRC and Panchayat Samity  - care to avoid double enrolment.
Payment of honorarium.
Time to time monitoring & supervision
Submission of progress & performance report.

   

NGO run EGS (presently AIE ) centres

     These centres may be opened with the help of NGOs at places where there is no Primary School/SSK within 1 km and Upper Primary School/MSK within 3 kms. In case of geographicial barriers the distance may be ignored.

      NGOs are to be selected in consultation with the Panchayat Samity /Municipality/ Municipal Corporation.

      Two categories of centres may be opened. Primary level centred for the 5+ to 9+ year age group children and upper primary level centres for the 10+ to 13+ years age group children.

      Each centre may be opened with at least 15 nos. of learners. 1 Madhyamik passed Instructor may be engaged as Instructor for Primary Level centres and Graduate Instructor for Upper Primary Level centres. Centres will run for 4 hrs. a day and for 5 days in a week.

 

Bridge Course 

It is an accelerated teaching learning process which, within a shorts duration, enables the over aged out-of-school children to get mainstreamed in age-specific classes in nearby formal schools.

Two categories of Bridge Course Centres may be opened. Primary level centre for the 7+ to 9+ years age-group children and upper primary level centres for the 10+ to 13+ years age group children.

Each centre may be opened with at least 15 nos. of learners. 1 Madhyamik passed Instructor may be engaged as Instructor for Primary Bridge Course Centres and Graduate Instructor for Upper Primay Centres. Centres will run for 4 hrs. a day and for 5 days in a week.

The duration of these centres may be of 6/9/12 months.

 

Rabindra Open Schooling

Children who have passed class-V and either dropped-out in class-VI or Class-VII may continue education in Rabindra Open School. The ROS is in Bengali Medium only.

Each centre may be opened with at least 20 learners each in class VI & class VII for the 1st year. In the second year class VIII will function accordingly. For the first year 2 Community Tutors, one from Arts stream and the other from Science stream may be engaged. In second year another tutor from Social Science Group may be engaged.

Centre will run for 4 hrs. a day and for 6 days in a week. Learners will come 4 days in a week as per their wish.

   

Centre for the Deprived Urban Children

Bridge Course and EGS (presently AIE) centres may be opened for the neglected, destitute, orphaned, abandoned children living (and looking) in especially difficult circumstances in these urban/semi urban/slum areas.

Types of DUC:

·        Street children

·        Railway platform children

·        Children working and staying with employers in shops/establishments/domestic houses

·        Children of sex workers living in the red light areas

·        Children living in slums/squatter colonies

·        Children of migrant families

·        Children living in girls and juvenile homes.

The norms applied for running Bridge Course Centre and EGS (presently AIE) centre will also be applicable for running these centres.

Source : SSM, Bardhaman                                                           

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