Always on the move: The troubling landscape of the right to education for migrant children in India April 19, 2021, 7:04 PM IST
The Supreme Court of India, on April 13, 2021 has directed all the states to inform the court about the number and status of migrant children in India and directed the protection of their fundamental rights during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in India. Unsurprisingly, it took us more than a year into the pandemic to take note of the situation of one of the most marginalized categories of children in India.
While the first wave of the pandemic shook the country by surprise when we witnessed the unprecedented migrant crisis in India, very limited attention was paid to the children of those migrant communities who were also on the move and were under greater vulnerability of missing out on important developmental aspects, especially education. The coverage or advocacy around this aspect of the migrant crisis has been fairly limited during t