dropping of students from schools

As per the reports ”16.1%of the Indian children in the age group 6-14  have dropped out of schools. The reasons are, poverty resulting in  child labour , dissatisfactory implementation  of the RTE Act due to non availability of nearby schools etc.,  The number is higher due to the mind set of the rural poor who have strong son preference attitude . They are not willing to spend on private schools education, coaching or hostel  stay or on transportation of the girls, since they are needed at home to manage households  work  during absence of their working mothers and they are considered as “neighbors’ plants” and they  believe that, their empowerment through education is not going to help their families . Whereas  the sons are future security and spending on their education will benefit the whole family . Hence there is an urgent need to ban child labour on war footing and extend financial support to very poor families to educate both boys and girls and resort to hectic awareness programmes to  make the poor parents understand that, education is a very powerful tool  for  the  social and economic empowerment of the marginalized sections of the Indian community . At this stage India can not afford to waste human resource by keeping 16.1% of the children population out of schools .