UNDERSTANDING ATTITUDE OF THE SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES PARENTS TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS OF THEIR CHILDREN

Education is the right of the every individual. It has been inserted in the Article 21-A of the Indian Constitution that every child will get free and compulsory Education under the age of six to fourteen years. The aim of the present was to know the understanding attitude of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes parents towards the Educational rights of the children. The researcher took the sample of 60 parents from rural area of district Udhampur of Jammu and Kashmir, which consist of thirty fathers and mothers. Self-made interview schedule was used in the study. The objective of the study was to know the awareness among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled parents, so that some intervention can be given to meet the educational needs and Educational rights of the children. Selfmade semi-structured interview schedule was used by the researcher in for data collection. The analysis was made by using simple percentage method. This was the qualitative study which conducted to explore the understanding attitude among parents. The findings of the study reveals thatmost of the fathers and mothers gave favourable responses which means they are aware about accessing the children to school. They have the positive and favourable attitude towards Educational Rights of their children. They also know that how to avail the educational facilities to access the school