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It follows a survey undertaken by field workers of Education Department TAMBARAM: All children aged above five in the southern suburbs of Chennai have been admitted to government or private primary schools. This follows an intensive school enrolment drive concluded recently, officials of the Education Department told The Hindu recently. An initial survey in July revealed that there were 14,721 children who were five years old (school going age) in the St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union (or Mount Block) that encompasses the entire southern suburban areas from Alandur to Perungalathur and Pozhichalur to Sholinganallur and Kottivakkam to Uthandi. It was an elaborate survey undertaken by the field workers of the Education Department, particularly those involved in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in urban and rural areas of Mount Block. Officials of the Education Department said the survey and the consequently enrolment drive were to ensure that no child aged over five did not go to school. Teachers from all 129 government and aided schools in the Block covered households with such children, in all 453 habitations in the southern suburbs. Apart from the census figures, they also had with them statistics from the Village Education Register maintained by each school, apart from collecting information from Integrated Child Development Scheme centres on the total number of children above five years. Admitting that there was a possibility of some children being left out, they said the left-out children could be accommodated in alternative schools. In September, the Kancheepuram district administration had fixed a target of identifying 622 students in the St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union as “out-of-school children” — those between 5 and 14 years of age and not attending schools. The figure was reached following last year’s survey and some technical calculations done by the administrators. However, intensive field surveys revealed that the actual number of these out-of-school children was 1,006. SSA staff said the difference in projections and actual number of such children was due to a large-scale migration towards the southern suburbs by families from other districts of the State and those evicted from encroachments in the city and other areas. Of these 1,006 children, 663 of them were enrolled in primary schools leaving 343 children out of formal school education. Among the 343 children, it was noticed that 97 had migrated elsewhere recently, while the rest were accommodated in alternative schools, including those run after school hours. Most of the children who were unable to enter normal schools belonged to remote and most backward pockets .
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