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    "content": "infrastructure you are providing is not relevant to the way of life of these people. No parent will give you a three year old child and then go into the bush to look after their animals. They will comfortably move with their children. We should have education systems which are sensible to the ways of life of these people. Otherwise, we will still have illiteracy levels in some parts of this country, 50 years down the line, at 80 per cent. One of the hindrances is the way of life of the people. If we can amplify that mobile school part – even in the Bill it is just a section – proper support systems can be provided for it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with a mobile school, even the supervision will have to be mobile. It will not be the normal education system which you just go to school and you have to know where they are and what kind of supervision to provide in terms of quality. That part of the Bill if fully implemented by county governments, especially those in arid areas with pastoralist communities, then we will achieve some of these international requirements like the MDGs by reducing illiteracy levels. That is why we have not been improving at all because you will not always get these children. In any case, there is always alternative work to do. If they do not go to school, the parents will be happy because the parents will ask them to look after their livestock and so they will not be idling somewhere. It is up to us to impress upon these parents that it is better for these children to go to school but we provide the commensurate facilities for them. With those remarks, I support the Bill."
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