The socio- economic problems of the school dropout among the primary level ramnagar area of gaighata block, north 24 parganas, West Bengal

School education is affected by various kinds of external factors, like government funding and policy apart from internal factors like parental education. Development caused displacement is one of the most important external factors which affects the status of school education among the peasant families in a rural area. Since, dispossession from agricultural land takes place in situations of development caused displacement, the resulting landlessness causes adverse impacts (e.g. drop-outs from the school) on the school going children of peasant families.

In this paper we have undertaken a field based study in an anchal (Ramnagar) which is situated near the Indo- Banglladesh Border of East site of India. The findings of this study mainly revealed that the primary level school dropout have been caused some social as well as economic factor. Beside this, our study has been showed that there is a difference between male and female school dropout rates as well as parents occupations also have been affected the children dropouts in our study area.