Kids Education Is In High Demand

With over a billion people, the cities in India are bursting at the seams. The basic necessities of urban life have dropped to a low and the need for food, housing, hospitals and schools are in immensely short supply. Parents across the country have felt the demand for good to be of prime importance to not only because they want to give their children the best educational opportunities but also because during admissions, schools get filled up and the rate at which new schools are coming up doesn’t match with the number of children that need to go to school but have got admission because there are no more schools left to take them in.

This is the sad state of affairs in the Indian schools. Though there are a number of schools across the country, the problem is that not all these are begin with nursery. Some of them are from class 1 to 5, while others are still building more classes to their existing school infrastructure.

This has led the majority of parents to flock to schools that are complete i.e schools that have classes from nursery to class 12, so that they don’t have to be on the look out for continuation schools.

Most of the Indian schools that start from Class-I are limited in their intake which makes admissions a competitive process. Also, another hindering factor is that the income group, to which the parents belong to, restricts parents to try only for such schools. Unfortunately there is an even greater shortage of good, competent pre-primary schools from the vast number of Pre-primary, Primary, High and Boarding/Day Boarding Schools.Despite all these factors, good schools still seem to be in high demand. Parents at times do tend to apply to schools even if they feel they may not be able to afford the fee.

OSA is a portal that caters to the admission assistance most parents require for their child and helps makes school admissions a delightful experience.

If you are on the look out for a good schools in India, and don’t know where to start, relax! OSA does everything for you right from filling up your child’s form, submitting it online and scheduling a date for your child’s interview. What more could a parent ask for? OSA also posts Blogs on the Internet on topics related to education and parenting and understands a child’s world perfectly.

Child Labor and Their Primary Education in India

Ever since man led a life of a nomad while living together in tribes and clans we see the children lending their parents a helping hand. Child labor in some form or the other has always existed in societies all over the world. The worst forms of the exploitation of children started during the Industrial Revolution. It was at this time that machinery took over many functions formerly performed by hand and was centralized in large factories.

There was a large scale structural shift in employment patterns. Many artisans lost their jobs and were forced to work in these factories. But the owners of these factories realized that operating many of these machines did not require adult strength and children could be hired much more cheaply than adults.

India has the largest number of children employed than any other country in the world.

A number of policy initiatives and programs have been undertaken in this country over the last decade with the basic objective of dealing with the problem of the rapidly increasing number of child workers.  There are specific clauses in the draft of Indian constitution dated 26th January 1950, about the child labor policy in India.

These are conveyed through different articles in the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of the State Policy. Article 24 of the Indian Constitution states that no child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engage in any other hazardous employment. Further Article 39-f of the Indian Constitution declares that Children shall be given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth shall be protected against moral and material abandonment.

There have been multiple entry points in dealing with child labor problems in India, but the greatest challenge is to recognize the link between eliminating child labor and guaranteeing safe future to all. It has been noticed in a country like India that in families dwelling below poverty line, children are a premiere source of earnings. It is true that the Government of the country has taken a bold step by prohibiting child labor, but is it successful in securing a safe future of our children dwelling under poverty line? This is the question that many Indians have in their minds. Providing free education up to the age of 14 years and prohibiting child labor cannot secure the future of the country, unless we general people come up with a new way of dealing with this.