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Education for Marginalised

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Presented By:- Krishna Priya,

Ashna, Praveena.
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Introduction:

• Marginalization is the process of making a group or class of people less

important or relegated to a secondary position

• Minority groups such as individuals living with disabilities (physical and

mental), women, racial minorities, aboriginal communities, elderly individuals,
and homosexuals may face certain forms of marginalization

• It is a complex as well as shifting phenomenon linked to social status.

• In India for instance such a group of people included the vulnerable

sections of the society like dalits ,adivasis, woman, minorities, and
organised workers etc.
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DALITS

• Dalits or the scheduled castes have been the largest

marginalised section of the Indian society.

• The discrimination of dalits in rural areas can be seen in the

following areas, namely:-

*Village, panchayats, co-operative schools & temples

*Saloons, laundry, shopping unit & public places like

hotels etc.

*private places
• For the last many centuries the Indian society is fragmented
in the hundreds of caste and sub caste neatly ordered into
hierarchical pyramidal form.
• Broadly, the
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 In India, dalits form one of the most educationally deprived sections of the society.

 A survey conducted by the National Council of Economic Research reveals that in

mid- 1990 s only 41.5% of dalits in rural India were literature and 62.5% of children in
the 6-4 age group had been enrolled in school at a certain point of time.

 As a result, Dalit children have to go upper caste habitations to be able to attend

schools, which may not be accepting and welcoming them.
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National sample Survey Organization (NSSO)

 According to National Symbol Survey Organization (NSSO 1999) sources, the
school attendance rate in rural areas in 1973-74 was 64.3% for dalit boys
compared to 74.9% among boys from other social group.

 In urban areas however the percentage was 77.5%for dalit boys.

 Dalit girls had even lower attendance rates.

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NCERT
 According to NCERT(National Council of Educational
Reasearch and Training, 1999 figures Dalits constitute only
around 11%of teacher's at the primary stage , 9% at the upper
primary stage and 5-6% at the secondary and higher secondary
stages.