Though the female literacy rate is gradually rising, but in India it is lower than the male literacy rate. Compared to boys, far fewer girls are enrolled in the schools, and many of them drop out.
According to the National Sample Survey Data of 1997, only the states of Kerela and Mizoram have approached universal female literacy rates. According to majority of the scholars, the major factor behind the improved social and economic status of women in Kerala is literacy.
Under Non-Formal Education programme (NFE), about 40% of the centers in states and 10% of the centers in UT s are exclusively reserved for females. As of 2000, about 0.3 million NFE centers were catering to about 7.42 million children, out of which about 0.12 million were exclusively for girls. In urban India, girls are nearly at par with the boys in terms of education. However, in rural India girls continue to be less educated than the boys.According to a 1998 report by U.S. Department of Commerce, the chief barrier to female education in India are inadequate school facilities (such as sanitary facilities), shortage of female teachers and gender bias in curriculum (majority of the female characters being depicted as weak and helpless).
Any solutions to these education problems mainly in rural areas??
Looking at this we can conclude that the problem that there is very less improvement in rural areas is because of lack of facilities..
ReplyDeleteSetting up of more and more schools and compulsory schooling will be a good solution which is also implemented in some of the regions and it has improved the conditions there..
What i feel is that idea implemented by the brands like rin, classmate etc is quite good to contribute some money out of the product's mrp towards the education of rural areas..
ReplyDeleteThose ideas should be promoted more and more..