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Maharashtra govt says over 10k Mumbai students dropped out of school, experts pan survey

State education department’s survey that started in Feb estimates that 25,204 students left school in the state amid pandemic, of these 288 are child labourers, experts say number is low.

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According to the survey there are only 11 students in Mumbai who dropped out of school due to child labour. File pic

According to the survey there are only 11 students in Mumbai who dropped out of school due to child labour. File pic

Mumbai has recorded the highest number of children who dropped out of school amid the pandemic in the state. The education department of the state government concluded its survey to locate out-of-school students and found that 25,204 students are out-of-school, out of which 10,821 are from Mumbai.

The survey also presents data of migrated children from Maharashtra amid the pandemic. While 14,084 children have moved to other states, 8,801 are from Mumbai.

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