09 Mar 2022 ‘Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’
Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav – Today Current Affairs
- On the eve of International Women’s Day, Ministry of Women and Child Development launched an unprecedented campaign ‘Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’ to bring back school dropouts to formal education/or skill system.
Key points of this plan: The Hindu Analysis
- The scheme has been launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in partnership with the Ministry of Education and UNICEF.
- This scheme will also fulfill the target set in the ‘Right to Education Act’ to bring back the out-of-school girls back to the ‘education system’.
Issues related to women’s education: The Hindu Analysis
- Gap in upper primary and secondary schooling: Although female enrollment has increased rapidly since the 1990s, substantial gaps exist in female upper primary and secondary schooling.
- High dropout rate: The increasing rate of female enrollment becomes ineffective due to higher dropout rate of girls relative to boys and lower class attendance. Girls have the largest number of children who do not go to school.
- Inter-state differences: There are considerable variations in terms of ‘gender equality’ between different states in the country. Although the most educationally backward states such as Bihar and Rajasthan have recorded the highest growth in female enrollment, these states still have a long way to go on par with better performing states such as Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.
- Son Preference: Some studies show that girls are significantly more represented in government schools than boys, which shows a tendency to consistently give preference to sons. According to the Economic Survey 2018, boys are sent to (allegedly) better quality private and better schools.
Various government efforts being made towards women’s education in India: The Hindu Analysis
- Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme: Its objective is to create awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare services for the girl child. The main objective of the campaign was to improve the steadily declining ‘child sex ratio’ but also to promote education, survival and protection of the girl child.
- Digital Gender Atlas: A ‘Digital Gender Atlas’ has been prepared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to advance girls’ education in India.
- National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education (NSIGSE): The objective of this scheme is to reduce the dropout rate and promote enrollment of girls in secondary schools. Creating an enabling environment.
- Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: In order to ensure greater participation of girls in elementary education, various interventions for girls under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are targeted, these include opening of schools, appointment of additional female teachers, separate toilets for girls, sensitization programs of teachers etc. Apart from this, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas have also been opened in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs).
- Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA): To enhance the quality of education, improve the quality of education imparted at the secondary level, remove gender, socio-economic and disability barriers by providing a secondary school within a reasonable distance of each habitation.
- UDAN: CBSE has launched UDAN scheme to provide free online preparation resources to girl students of class XI and XII. The special focus of this scheme is to improve the low enrollment ratio of girl students in reputed institutions.
- STEM Education: To increase the participation of women in STEM education, additional seats have been created in IITs and NITs.
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