CHILD RIGHTS: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EDUCATION AND HEALTH: A STUDY

The North East India is one of the most diverse areas of India. The diversity makes the whole area more interesting and unique. Because of the remoteness and communication hurdles, ethnic conflicts, migration, and other continuous problems in the area, it leads to human rights violation and low level of human development attainment among the masses. The paper is a humble attempt to look into the issues of deprivation of human development and human rights especially among the children. Of late, there has been a renewed emphasis on the issues of human development and human rights and to linked both of them as a matter of attainment or deprivation of basic needs. It is in this context that the paper will try to raise the twin issue of rights and development, present status and future course of action in the line of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in North East India. Issues like primary education and health status of children are mainly discussed in the paper. While preparing the paper, government data and report especially human development reports of respective states are analysed. Although significant progress has been made in the area of primary education but regarding health related issues much progress has to be made. Again it is found that there is large diversity among the states and between rural and urban area.