[MLE] Migrants issues / NORRAG Article on India
Dear MLE friends, Two items came in after the reports on the Right to Education act. Sanjeev Rai, National Manager-Education, Save the Children India , raises the complicated issue of the language constrains for children of migrant labourers: “ Language of instruction has become a major obstacle before children of migrant labourers .No school could deny admission of these migrant children but without ensuring proper provisions in the destination schools children can’t stay there. Save the Children has been working with the seasonal migrant children from Jharkhand staying with their parents near Brick Kilns of West Bengal. The medium of instruction in elementary schools of West Bengal is Bangla and Hindi for the Jharkhand so inter-state coordination must be in place to ensure the realization of Right to Education by the marginalized children of the country.”