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| Kolam dropout girl students |
Adivasis have launched their own mission to bring
back the dropout Adivasi students to the schools and colleges. Adivasis are of
the opinion that education can bring positive change in their lives and are making
all out effort to educate their children.
Adivasi leaders have been visiting Adivasi gudems
for the last two months to identify dropout students and students who
discontinued their studies at SSC, Intermediate, Degree and Post Graduate
levels.
Leaders of Adivasi Vidyarathi Sangham also
collecting personal data of Adivasi students and their education qualifications
and marks they secured in different courses and what they are doing at present.
Sangham district president Vedma Bojju said they are
more than 5,000 school and college dropouts among the Gond Adivasis alone in
the district and they are in the process of consolidate the data they have
collected and to admit the dropout students at tribal welfare Ashram schools.
It is found that a majority of the students had discontinued
their studies after intermediate and some of them after degree due to financial
problems. Among them, some of the students discontinued their studies as they
have failed to clear the subjects.
Some of the students are pursuing degree and post
graduation courses through distance education mode while working in their
agriculture fields and supporting their families.
It is also found that most of the Adivasis students
are taking admission in social studies at intermediate, degree level as they
felt that science subject were hard to study and they could not complete the
courses if they take admission in MPC, BiPC, B.Sc, B.Zc courses. Very few
Adivasi students got admission in post graduation regular courses in universities
and that too in social sciences.
On the other hand, leaders of Particularly Vulnerable
Tribal Group Kolam tribe have started a survey in Kolam gudems to identify the
dropout students two months ago.
District president of Kolam Vidyarthi Sangham Sidam
Ganghadhar said they found nearly 260 dropouts in Class V-IX including 120
girls belonging to Kolam tribe and admitted them at various Tribal Ashram
schools district.
Such surveys are also being conducted to identify the drop out students in other PVTG Thoti, Mannerwar Adivasi groups.
