The basic education department
of Uttar
Pradesh would provide free and compulsory education up to class 8 to
children of sex workers on the pattern of West Bengal. The officials of the basic education
department said that according to the orders of Basic Shiksha Parishad and the
Supreme Court, even the children of sex workers below the age of 14 years would
be given free and compulsory education. The officials of the department of
every district in the state were asked to identify such children through a
survey.
(Mitra, N.2012)