This year, 121 temporary hostels have been approved with a delay of about a month to stop the migration of children of laborers going to other districts and states for sugarcane harvesting in the district. The Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Parishad has approved these hostels. With their commencement, migration of 10,554 students of the district will be stopped and their studies will be able to continue.
Every year in the first week of October, the Chief Executive Officer approves temporary hostels for the children of sugarcane harvesting workers on the basis of the proposal submitted by the Education Department of the Zilla Parishad. After Dussehra, a large number of sugarcane harvesting workers migrate from their villages to other districts and states. In such a situation, so that the education of their children is not affected and the academic year can be saved from getting wasted, temporary hostels are started in the villages. These are operated through village level education committees.
Proposals not received from two tehsils
This year, a total of 121 temporary hostels have been approved in the remaining 9 tehsils of Beed district except Ashti and Patoda tehsils. However, due to non-receipt of proposals for hostels from these two tehsils, many questions are being raised. Don't the sugarcane harvesting workers of these areas migrate to other places? Has a survey of out-of-school children been conducted here? The Education Department has also shown seriousness regarding these questions.
Education department asked for report
In this matter, the Education Officer has issued a letter to the Block Education Officers of Ashti and Patoda. In this, instructions have been given to submit a report on the reasons for not receiving proposals for temporary hostels from both the tehsils as well as on the status of migration of sugarcane harvesting workers and survey of children staying out of school. After getting the approval, temporary hostels in the district will be started in the next few days.