Shiksha Samachar: Education to Girls

Education to Girls
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In India the Gender Gap has been decreasing in elementary education. According
to the District Information System for Education (DISE) 2010-11, the Gender
Parity Index (GPI) at both primary and upper primary level stands at 0.94 as
compared to Bangladesh 1.02, South Africa 0.93, China 1.03, Afghanistan 0.69,
Pakistan 0.86 and Sri Lanka 1.01. (Source: UNESCO Global Education Digest 2010).

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and the National Programme for Education of Girls at
Elementary Level (NPEGEL) provide for targeted provisions to promote education
of girls. These include encouraging States to recruit 50% women teachers from
among teachers sanctioned under SSA, providing for an ‘Innovation fund’ per
district, which can inter alia be utilized for need based interventions to
ensure better attendance and retention of girls, free textbooks and uniforms up
to class VIII, separate toilets for girls, development of model schools in
clusters, bridge courses for older girls, early childhood care and education
centers in/near schools in convergence with ICDS, teachers’ sensitization
programmes to promote gender equality, gender sensitive teaching learning
materials including textbooks , and intensive community mobilization efforts. In
addition, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) are set up as residential
upper primary schools for girls from SC, ST, OBC & Muslim communities.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource
Development, Dr. D. Purandeswari, in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha
today.
Ref Source MV/GK
Press Information Bureau, Government of India.Ministry of Human Resource
Development
09-May-2012