Child monitoring cards supplied to schools and alternative education centres
PHOTO: N. BASHKARAN
Dazzling display: Students performing a cultural programme at the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Krishnagiri on Wednesday. —
Krishnagiri: The district administration has initiated all out efforts to make Krishnagiri district free from out-of-school children by 2008, Collector Santhosh Babu has said.
Participating in the Children’s day function at the Government Boys Higher Secondary school here on Wednesday, he said that the administration had been supporting students from remote and inaccessible areas to get admission in Teacher Training Institutes. It has uploaded the profiles of about 8,600 out-of-school children and their families in the tracking and monitoring software www.back2school.in. so far.
The tracking and monitoring software seeks to eliminate the child labour menace and prevent children from dropping out of school. To start with, the district administration has supplied child monitoring cards to all schools and Alternative and Innovative Education (AIE) centres in the district.
The card includes the photograph of the child and other details such as the parents occupation and economic status.
The district administration has drawn up a plan to make Krishnagiri a fully sanitised district by April 2008. Steps have been initiated to construct 2.5 lakh individual household toilets in the district at an outlay of Rs. 40 crore.
The Collector exhorted NGOs and self-help groups to create awareness among the locals on the construction and use of individual household toilets. The participation of people in implementation of government schemes is essential. The district administration has launched an intensive drive to abolish child labour in Krishnagiri district. Those who employ child labourers in hazardous and non-hazardous occupations will be imposed a fine of Rs. 20,000 each, he added.
MLAs T. Senguttuvan and Meghanathan and Project Officer, Water and Sanitation, A. Devaraj also spoke.
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