[India_Vision_2020] Reduction of child labour and out-of-school-children - A success story at Krishnagiri District - Podcast

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In India, around 10 percent of the rural children get dropped out of the schools, for various reasons, and mainly due to poverty.  Every District Administration in India is empowered with enough funds and programmes to reduce child labour and also to bring back the out-of-school children.  National Child Labour Project, Sarva Siksha Abhyan and UNICEF are also supporting the District Administrations in this task. Out-of-school-children or what we call school-drop-outs are great challenge to the society.  Not only, their talents are not utilised in right direction, they also turn out to be anti-social elements.

Only few IAS officers passionately involve  themselves to help the poor and downtrodden.  Many of them do not even connect to the people.  They remain in ivory towers, enjoying the powers vested with them.  Sadly,  many of the District Collectors in India, behave like pre-independant day Collectors. 

In spite of such general trend in bureaucracy, there are passionate IAS officers, who utilise the power and time for the development of the people.    On such young IAS officer is Dr Santhosh Babu, presently Managing Director of Electronic Corporation of Tamilnadu (ELCOT).  Till recently, he was the District Collector at  Krishnagiri District.  During his tenure, he identified and tracked around 10,000 school drop outs and ensured that they go back to school. (95% success rate)  Through e-goverance, he also initiated lot of schemes, through which, the public can get the support from the Government quickly.  He ensure people-friendly governance at the district level.

There were lot of media reports about his initiatives.  He also received Awards from different Instituions, including from the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. 

Dr Santhosh Babu is part of our  India Vision Group.  I interviewed him to have the first hand information about his success story.  Please listen to his inspiring and motivating conversation.   Please click.

http://www.poduniversal.com/2008/12/reduction-of-child-labour-and-out-of.html

or

http://www.action2020.co.cc/2008/12/reducing-child-labour-and-out-of-school.html

Srinivasan
Prime Point

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