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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

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