Nomadic tribes get travelling teachers
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19/12/2002
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Indian Express (New Delhi)
Already the Himachal Pradesh state boasts of a 98% enrolment, the balance two per cent are children of nomadic Gujjar and Gaddi tribes and the state's migrant workforce. The solution: embed teachers with these tribes. And set up a school even if the population isn't enough, wait for the settlers to come down. For the Gujjars, who move in large groups with their cattle between Chamba and Kangra and occasionally stray into Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur districts of Punjab, the government has already begun trying out