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per 2001 census Dantewada is least literate district
in the entire India. Himanshu Kumar who runs the
NGO Vanvasi Chetna Ashram shares the present status
(March 2009) of education at Dantewada.
The current
situation of education at Dantewada is going from
bad to worse.
The villages in Dantewada can be divied into two,
one is Salwa Judum and Naxal conflict affected
villages and the other villages comes under non-conflict
zone. The schools in the Salwa Judum or Naxal
affected areas are closed.
Last August,
Dantewada district was divided in two, the other
one is called Bijapur district. In undivided Dantewada
distirct, there were one thousand three hundred
and fifty four villages. The population in these
villages ranges betwwen three lakh fifty thosaund
to four lakh, out of which children makes a large
portion of it..
The children
wants to learn. Not only the children, but their
parents too are interested in sending their kids
to school. They want high quality education, which
the government school lacks. These are the few
changes that we have noticed in their attitudes
towards learning.
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