Andhra Pradesh - Kurnool   

Bridge schools told to enrol children identified in survey

Staff Reporter

KURNOOL: Collector Vikas Raj has asked organisers of residential bridge schools under Child Labour Rehabilitation Project to enrol children identified in a special survey.

Mr. Vikas Raj reviewed the functioning of schools being run by non-governmental organisations here on Wednesday. He said the district administration conducted a special survey to identify children outside schools by involving a professional agency. A list was supplied to organisers of each bridge school.

It was the job of the organisers to convince parents and create conditions for readmission of the children in school.

Crosschecking

He said the administration would not accept the bridge schools enrolling children other than those identified by the survey. Also, the argument that the survey was not correct would not be entertained. In case of a specific complaint that the children in the list did not exist or were already enrolled in school, the administration would crosscheck the facts.

He said the verification exercise also upheld the list and the NGOs need not worry about the children left out in the survey but concentrate on the children allotted to them. Many NGOs said that only children from families that did not want to send children to school remained now.

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