Reasons behind the dropout children in Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal

Education is a device for Human Resource Development where in the skill, abilities, knowledge, understanding and attitudes are promoted. The achievement of the educational process depends not only on the participation of the stakeholders, but also on the educative environment and the peoples’ perception towards various aspects and their experience in the process. In other word, the success of education has also been depending on the experiences provided by the system. The experiences are largely responsible for keeping the target within the system or pushing out from the system. Keeping the above backdrop, an attempt has been made in this paper to study the perceptions of the parents and experiences of the participating children, dropouts and school completers in this education process. For the purpose of the present study, the information collected from the sample households based on the parents of dropout children and their opinion towards the present day system of education among Dooars householders. This study conducted in Jalpaiguri, a Sarva Shiksha Mission (SSM) district of West Bengal since 2002 to evaluate and assess the reasons behind Dropout Children. To identify the effects, we use structured schedule containing sixteen independent variables viz. Age of Father (X₁), Age of Mother (X₂), Father's Education (X₃), Mother's Education (X₄), Father's Occupation (X₅), Mother's Occupation (X₆), Family Size (X₇), Monthly Family Income (X₈), Home Environment (X₉), Climatic Factor (X₁₀), Monthly Expenditure on Education (X₁₁), Attitude towards Education (X₁₂), Financial Condition (X₁₃), Social Interaction (X₁₄), Role of forest/tea garden in controlling financial hardship (X₁₅) and Use of Mass media (X₁₆) against dependent variable Reasons behind the Dropout (Y).