On National Girl Child Day
Let’s take a collective pledge to do away with all kinds of discrimination against girl child and help her pursue education.
— Srijan Ka Sankalp
Girls’ education in India needs a lot of attention, as per the current situation literacy rate of women is around 64% compared to male literacy rate which is 82 %. By educating a girl child, we can make it possible for her to grow up and become an empowered woman.
According to a report of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights’ (NCPCR), a majority of Indian adolescent girls are not attending any educational institution, and it’s not because they are working, but because they are either forced to do household duties, are dependent or engaged in begging.
The NCPCR report states that around 39.4 percent of adolescent girls in the 15-18 age group are not attending any educational institution and a vast majority — around 65 percent — of them are “either engaged in household activities, are dependents, or, are engaged in begging, etc”. Notwithstanding the present government’s ambitious programme like, “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” campaign, which sought to address gender imbalance and discrimination against the girl child, the state of girl’s education in India remains bleak.
Srijan Ka Sankalp, a non-governmental organization, engaged in promoting awareness about the importance of education among boys and girls in the countryside of India and helping them to pursue education, is committed to bridging this gender imbalance through its multi-pronged initiatives. And we are happy to say that Srijan’s sustained efforts to make education and learning more attractive through the introduction of smart classes have drastically improved the attendance and enrollment of boys and girls in the village schools in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. We are committed to replicate the success of Bundelkhand in other parts of the country so that no girl child remains uneducated.
