Education of girls and women in general has been a high priority with the Government of India . In the new millennium, India has consolidated its earlier educational reforms with increased resources and stronger policy commitments for achieving elementary educationfor all children, particularly girls.Efforts are being made to generate a community demand for girls’ education and
enabling conditions for people’s and women’s participation, to create the push factors
necessary to guarantee girls education. Motivation and mobilisation of parents and the 2
community at large, enhancing the role of women and mothers in school related activities
and participation in school committees, and strengthening the linkages between the
school, teachers and communities are some of the ways in which the enabling conditions
are being created.
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is a critical and essential input in
freeing girls from sibling care responsibilities, leading to their regular attendance in
school and in providing school readiness skills to pre-school children. The SSA works in
a convergent mode with the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme
to promote pre-school education by providing for training of Anganwadi workers,
primary school teachers, and health workers for a convergent understanding of pre-school
and ECCE. The SSA, like other programme in the past, provides funds under Innovative
head (Rs. 15 Lakh per district) and under the NPEGEL component (for 3000
educationally backward blocks) to support pre-school component of ICDS or an interim
pre-school centre where ICDS does not exist but is needed.
In addition, to target pockets where girls education is lagging behind, the
Government of India has launched two focussed interventions for girls – the National
Programme for Educa tion of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL) and the Kasturba
Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) to reach out to girls from marginalised social groups
in over 3272 educationally backward blocks in the country where the female rural
literacy is below the national average and the gender gap in literacy is above the national
average.
enabling conditions for people’s and women’s participation, to create the push factors
necessary to guarantee girls education. Motivation and mobilisation of parents and the 2
community at large, enhancing the role of women and mothers in school related activities
and participation in school committees, and strengthening the linkages between the
school, teachers and communities are some of the ways in which the enabling conditions
are being created.
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is a critical and essential input in
freeing girls from sibling care responsibilities, leading to their regular attendance in
school and in providing school readiness skills to pre-school children. The SSA works in
a convergent mode with the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme
to promote pre-school education by providing for training of Anganwadi workers,
primary school teachers, and health workers for a convergent understanding of pre-school
and ECCE. The SSA, like other programme in the past, provides funds under Innovative
head (Rs. 15 Lakh per district) and under the NPEGEL component (for 3000
educationally backward blocks) to support pre-school component of ICDS or an interim
pre-school centre where ICDS does not exist but is needed.
In addition, to target pockets where girls education is lagging behind, the
Government of India has launched two focussed interventions for girls – the National
Programme for Educa tion of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL) and the Kasturba
Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) to reach out to girls from marginalised social groups
in over 3272 educationally backward blocks in the country where the female rural
literacy is below the national average and the gender gap in literacy is above the national
average.
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