Volume : 4, Issue : 1, January - 2015

STREET CHILDREN THEIR RIGHTS AND EDUCATION IN INDIA: AN APPRAISAL

Tarannum Siddiqui

Abstract :

<p>This paper highlights the problems of children living on streets. However, these children having child rights in the Indian< /> constitution, even then thousands of children are still on the street. Rapid emergence of the street children in developing< /> cities of any country is considered as a natural phenomenon all over the world as the poorest of the poor masses of< /> the rural areas migrate to their accessible cities under the operating forces of &lsquo;push and pull&rsquo; factors. Their over accumulation in these places,< /> however, gradually aggrandize the problem. All these children are depriving of so many amenities particularly the most important is education.< /> Summary: Paper suggests that Each and every child of the slum must be provided with free education apart from the free boarding facility, at< /> least up to matriculation and there should be job guarantee for the matriculates. </p>