72m children lack schooling facilities: India has over 72 million children aged 5-14 who are deprived of basic education and have no opportunity of schooling with government policies failing to achieve targets inprogrammes for unversalisation of elementary education. According to a report 'A situation analysis of education for street and working children in India," releasd by the Unesco, sevral Central and state government programmes for universalisation of elementary education have not met with the desired success.