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Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav

8th March, 2022

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Context: Union Government Launched ‘Kanya Shikhsa Pravesh Utsav’ campaign to bring back out of school girls to the formal education and/or skilling system.

Details:

  • The Ministry of Women and Child Development, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), launched a campaign ‘Kanya Shikhsa Pravesh Utsav’ to bring back out of school adolescent girls in India to the formal education and/or skilling system.
  • The campaign was launched with the objective of increasing the enrolment and retention of girls between 11-14 years of age in school.
  • The initiative intends to build on the existing schemes and programmes like Schemes for Adolescent Girls, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and National Education Policy to work on a comprehensive system for out of school girls.

 

Significance of the campaign:

  • The campaign will target more than 400,000 out of school adolescent girls as primary beneficiaries.
  • It will create awareness and also increase investment in health, education, protection, skill building including financial literacy.
  • It will empower young women and girls, and promote gender-equality among India’s children and youth.
  • It aims to create an inclusive environment and infrastructure for education.

 

Challenges related to Women education:

  • School Dropout, reasons include distance of school from home, care of siblings, and increasing violence against women.
  • Girls’ education continues to be attacked by a Patriarchal socio‐cultural ethos.
  • Negative attitudes towards education of daughters, child marriage, Daughter discrimination.
  • Lack of facilities in schools, particularly sanitation facilities.
  • Lack of Gender socialization, lack of sensitization of teachers.
  • Lack of women teachers.
  • Inherent inequalities in Social structure and Stigma of caste, class, religion, language, disability and so on.

 

Way forward:

  • Adopt Gender inclusive Education policy.
  • Provision of infrastructural facilities such as sanitation, clean drinking water, hostels.
  • Ensuring Gender sensitive teachers, Increase women teachers.
  • Special provisions for safety and security of girls.
  • Special Provisions for Counseling and guidance.
  • Incentives, such as fee waiver, for disadvantaged girls, who seek admission in open School Programmes.
  • If you educate a woman, you educate a family, if you educate a girl, you educate the future.

 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/govts-new-utsav-aims-to-get-4-lakh-girls-back-into-education-fold/articleshow/90062293.cms