The Hindu : Migration hits children's education

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Tuesday, Jul 02, 2002

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Migration hits children's education

By Our Staff Reporter

Samba (Jammu) July 1. Amidst the din of cross-border shelling and protests over inadequate relief to the migrants from the International Border and the Line of Control, the suffering of the migrants' children has gone unnoticed.

Besides facing hardships of various kinds, these children are deprived of education, health and recreational facilities for almost six months since the border stand-off began.

In Samba tehsil, the education of about 400 children has been affected. After the migration of the people living near the IB, the government schools were shifted close to the make-shift camps. Migrants said they had been moving from one place to another. "The education of our children received the least priority," says Chuni Lal, a migrant from Ban Galarad, a forward village on the International Border.

The recent results of the various migrant government schools pointed to the declining standards as the pass percentage has dipped. A teacher of a migrant camp in SIDCO complex said : "We are running our classes in the open.

How can we expect the students to concentrate in this hot weather? We have been asking the State Government for providing us with tents so that we can at least save us and the children from the sun".

Education has been affected in schools where the buildings have been used for accommodating migrants.

The furniture in the schools has been damaged as the migrants used the wooden tables as firewood.

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