Abstract

SSA ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’, is a programme to provide free & compulsory elementary education to children within the age group of 6 years to 14 years. Although after the inception of District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), tremendous work has been done in this direction. The number of dropout of school children’s has also reduced. So we can now say that sufficient improvements have been done in the field of infrastructure development, deployment of trained teachers, providing free text books/workbooks, stationery, uniform etc., still we see that  the dropout rates and the number of out of school children in some particular type of areas including urban slums, and habitations near industrial establishments. In India, urban areas are having better educational facilities as compared to rural areas but  still enrolment rate in the rural areas is gradually improving yet number of schooling deprived children in urban localities is increasing alarmingly. Basically, those children who are beggars, rag pickers or living without the protection of adults, are hardly getting any type of education (Formal/Non-Formal). Because they are not able to afford high cost elite schools to get their children admitted.

 This research paper focuses on socio economic conditions that deprived the children’s from the education particularly in urban area (Bahadurgarh City). As well as explained that how and up to what extent these socio economic factors are responsible for the lowering level of education of children age group 6 to 14 years.