#dropout issue

Education is the passport to accelerate economic growth. It is the key to build a nation. In India, under various constitutional provisions and five year plans educational facilities have been expanded at all levels. According to article 45 of the constitution of India, the state shall endeavour to provide within a period of ten years from the commencement of this constitution for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years. As per 93rd amendment to the constitution, now elementary education has become the fundamental right of every child, but still millions of children are out of school. The top most reasons for dropping out are lack of interest in studies, economic conditions of the parents, migration of the family and to help the family in domestic work. After dropping out, the children are involved in helping their parents in household work, field work, working to earn money, most of students are also sitting idle and doing nothing more or less the students after dropping out from upper primary classes are helping the parents in earning the money, either by getting them involved in the agriculture and allied activities or directly by doing work to earn money. The present paper tries to analyse the school dropout status in Koshi region of Bihar.