Name: Pranab Jyoti Sarma & Rajib Malo
Country: India

Year: 2023
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 43-49

ABSTRACT:
The status of primary education in the Morigaon district of Assam reflects a mixed scenario
of substantial progress in access and infrastructure alongside persistent challenges in
retention and learning outcomes. Out of the eight goals of Millennium Development goals
(MDG), two are subjected to education. These are as follows:
Goal 2: “Achieve Universal Primary Education”.
Goal 3: “Promote gender equality and empower women”.
However, the scope of this paper is concerned with the goal No.2 as stated above. The target
of this goal as defined by the member nations is to “Ensure that, by 2015, children
everywhere, boys alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling”. The
Govt. of Indian Union, with 86th amendment of its Constitution has offered its citizen the
right to primary education as one more fundamental right. Meanwhile, it also launched a
highly ambitious scheme to ensure primary education of seven years duration for all children
under the Mission of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) by the year 2010.Assam is known as one
of the educationally backward states in the national perspective. The state’s literacy rate
(69.37%) is not only lagging behind that of national average (74.04%), the rampant incidence
of dropouts at the primary level of education (39.58%) is posing a serious threat to the move
to ensure universal primary education. And if we compared the literacy rate of Morigaon
District is very low as compared to the state’s rate. Therefore, in this paper an attempt is
made to study about the status of Primary Education and causes of as well as consequences in
the Morigaon district of Assam. For the preset study was undertaken in some rural and urban
area schools of Morigaon district. Data collected through scheduled questionnaire providing
class and sex wise enrolment of the beginning of the year and students completing the class
work of the end of the year. Data for two consecutive years thus collected is used to calculate
the school wise dropout rates.
Keywords: The Mission of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), primary education, dropouts,
literacy rate, Morigaon District,