Question

DATE
Speech on
Importance at Girld Education​

Answer 1

Answer:

“Education for Women’s Equality is a vital component of the overall strategy of securing equity and social justice in Education. What comes out clearly from the implementation of NPE, 1986 and its POA, is the need for institutional mechanisms to ensure that gender sensitivity is reflected in the implementation of all educational programmes across the broad. It is being increasingly recognized that the problem of UEE, in essence, the problem of the girl child.

Gandhiji used to say “if you educate a boy, you educate only one individual, but if you education a girl you educate the whole family”. A literate mother can never tolerate illiteracy in her house. Girls’ education in rural areas has thus acquired a very special attention. A special time bound drive has already been launched for girl drop-outs.