This document discusses girl child education and the National Policy on Education (NPE) 2019 draft in India. It outlines key factors that contribute to low rates of girl education such as poverty and cultural attitudes. The importance of educating girls is described, including empowering girls and achieving gender equality. Several government schemes that promote girl education in India are summarized, including Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and state-level programs. The NPE 2019 draft vision for prioritizing girl education through partnerships, increasing women in leadership roles, ensuring school safety, and conducting gender sensitivity programs is highlighted. The conclusion emphasizes that educating girls plants seeds for immense societal benefits and is crucial for women's empowerment.

1. Girl child education and NPE 2019
Dr.Nagaratna S
Guest Lecturer in Dept.Of Education
Smt. Veeramma Gangasiri Degree
College and P.G. Center for Women,
Kalaburagi

2. Introduction:
“A girl is a gift of nature; educate her for
bright future”.
Education is an essential part of a living being,
whether it’s a boy or a girl. Education helps an
individual to be smarter, to learn new things and to
know about the facts of the world. Education plays
one of the most important roles in Women
Empowerment.
Education is the first step to give women the power
to choose the way of life she wants to lead.

3. “Girls education is a way to developed
nation”.
According to Michelle Obama: “When girls are
educated, their countries become stronger and
more prosperous”.
Women education is essential for the appropriate
social and economic development of the country.
Both men and women run parallel like two wheels
in every society. Hence, both are significant
components of growth and development of the
country. Thus, both require equal opportunity when
it comes to education.

4. Factors Responsible for Low Rate of Girl Education:
Poverty
Long Distance
Negative attitude of the parents
Lack of infrastructure in schools
Religious factor
Child marriage
Child labour

5. Importance of Girl’s education:
• Girl’s education puts them in a good position, to chase
after their dreams and fulfill it.
• It is also a means to achieve gender equality.
• It helps them to become responsible and influential
members of society as they are able to take leadership
positions.
• When the girl child in society is educated, they are
capable to take their own decisions about their lives.
• It puts them as a bar set for bench-marking for the
coming generations in terms of achievements and
milestones they make in life.

6. Government Girl Child Schemes in India
• With the aim of changing the social attitude towards the girl children in India and
uplifting their standing in society, a range of girl child schemes have been initiated
across India. Such schemes may be broadly classified into two categories – Central
Government Schemes and State Government Schemes.
Central Government Schemes State Government Schemes
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Ladli Scheme of Haryana
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Ladli Laxmi Yojana of Madhya Pradesh
Balika Samriddhi Yojana Karnataka Bhagyashree Scheme
CBSE Udaan Scheme Mazi Kanya Bhagyashree scheme from Govt.
of Maharastra
National Scheme of Inclusive to girls for
secondary Education
West Bengal Kanyashree Prakalpa
Dhanalakshmi Scheme

7. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao:
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is a central government
scheme for girl child, which is applicable throughout
the country. The key objective of this scheme is to
save the girl child from social ills such as gender-
biased abortions and advance the education of girl
children all over the country.
Key objectives of this social welfare scheme for girl child
include::
• Preventing gender-biased selective abortions
• Ensuring survival and protection of girl child in
infancy
• Ensuring education and participation of the girl child

8. Karnataka Bhagyashree Scheme:
Bhagyashree Scheme is a Karnataka government
scheme designed to promote the birth of girl child
among families below the poverty line. The
financial assistance to the girl child is provided
some key criteria have been met.
The girl child receives health insurance cover up to
a maximum of Rs. 25,000 annually. The girl child
receives an annual scholarship of Rs. 300 to Rs.
1000 up to class 10th.

9. Draft for girls education by NPE- 2019:
Vision of NPE 2019
The National Education Policy
2019 envisions an India-centered
education system that
contributes directly to
transforming our nation
sustainably into an equitable and

10. Education of girls as a cross-cutting theme
To achieve gender equality in education, the Policy
aims to integrate gender as a cross cutting priority
for all aspects of policy implementation. Key
efforts will include:
1.Partnerships with States and community
organisations for girls’ education: The
Government of India will develop a ‘Gender-
Inclusion Fund’ to build the nation’s capacity to
provide qualitative and equitable education for all
girls, focusing on five pillars:

11. a. Ensuring 100% participation of girls in the
schooling system and a high participation rate in
higher education;
b. Closing gender gaps in educational attainment at
all levels;
c. Changing mindsets and halting harmful practices to
foster gender equity and inclusion;
d. Inculcating girls’ capacity for leadership to help and
develop current and future role models; and
e. Improving dialogue with civil society to exchange
best practices and lessons learned.

12. The fund will authorize two funding streams –
• 1.Formula Grants: This grants will be available to
States to implement priorities determined by the
central government critical for assisting women
and girls in gaining access to education (such as
the provision of sanitation and toilets, bicycles,
conditional cash transfers etc.).
• 2.Discretionary Grants: funds will enable States to
support and scale effective community based
interventions that address localized and context-
specific barriers to girls’ access to and participation
in quality education.

13. 2.Fostering women’s participation and leadership in
education:
• Resources will be made available to increase the
number of women in positions of leadership in
schools, including but not limited to institutional
heads, teachers, hostel wardens, health workers,
security guards, and sports instructors.
• To facilitate the hiring and retention of women in
education, the amended Maternity Benefit Act will be
implemented to provide crèche facilities for
educators.
• To address the gender imbalance among school
teachers (especially in some rural schools), alternate
pathways for female teacher recruitment will be
developed, without compromising on merit and
qualification, both educational and professional.

14. • 3.Prioritising school safety and security:
• All schools will develop credible mechanisms to ensure
schools remain discrimination, harassment, and
intimidation-free, especially for women and girls.
• NPE 2019 draft given Guidelines for ensuring school
safety and security of girls will be developed and made
a part of the eligibility conditions for institutional
accreditation. This framework will include mandatory
training for educators and administrators on efforts to
prevent and respond to school-related gender-based
violence.
• Efforts will be made to ensure girls benefit from
initiatives that promote access to safe and reliable
transportation, including bicycle access programmes.

15. 4.Gender sensitization in schools:
All educational institutions and affiliated offices will be
mandated to conduct awareness programmes on gender
issues to break stereotyped gender roles, on the
importance of harassment-free environments and equal
treatment of genders, and on legal protections and
entitlements for girls and women including the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO),
Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, the Maternity Benefit
Act (along with its Amendment), and the Sexual
Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention,
Prohibition and Redressal) Act.

16. Conclusion:
India is now a leading country on the basis of women education.
Indian History is not devoid of talented women. It is full of
women philosophers like Gargi, Viswabara and Maitreyi.
Other renowned women include Mirabai, Durgavati,
Ahalyabai and Laxmibai. All the legendary and historical
women in India are an inspiration and motivation for today’s
women. We can never overlook their contributions to the
society and country.
There is an immense need of educating the parents about the
merits and demerits of girl child education. It’s not only the
duty of the government but it’s our responsibility also to
educate people around us. The best thing is that our P.M. has
taken a very good initiative towards the girl child education
through ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign in villages. As
per him, if we want to see our country developed then we
have to make all girls educated.

17. By the suggestions of NPE 2019 draft, educating a
girl child is like planting a seed. It is a long term
investment which will continue to provide
immense benefits to the society in the future.
Lack of basic education lies at the heart of gender
inequality and girl child education is the first step
in the long struggle for women empowerment.

18. Thank you