ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING TOWARDS CHILD LABOUR: PROSPECTS AND FUTURE IN ASSAM

Educational planning is important as it can tackle those areas where immediate reform is needed. It can provide future educational infrastructure to those who are not yet in the coverage area of education. One such area before the educational planning is the child labourer education. Child labour is a threat for the nation and for the state. They are out of the scenario of universalization of primary education and fall under heavy dropout rates. There are national policies for child labour where special school for them was organized with monthly stripen of 100 rps. In Assam there are four districts under these schemes, but other districts are not yet followed. Overall education towards this child labour is not an easy task to deal with as their parents are from poverty striven family and so accept this child as assets. As a result they send these children to work instead of school. They believe that education will give them nothing but it will create a loss in time where the child can earn money outside. Therefore they are forbidden from the basic right to education. That is why educational planning should also be conscious to deal with the problem by catching its basic problems, and try to change the mind set of this people. This should be located soon otherwise we will lose our future citizen indulge in illiteracy. This paper attempts to find out whether there is any such planning is available for this child or not and also tries to show some future prospects which can be taken under consideration.