Education of women in India

Hello sir I want to write an essay on Education of women in India so please provide me some basic information about the status of women education in India.

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Women must be educated for a healthy and a happy life. An educated woman can be a better human being, successful mother and a responsible citizen.

Need of Women Education

Women empowerment can only be achieved through the provision of adequate and functional education to the women folk.

This is crucial because without an effective, efficient, adequate and functional education for all its citizens

The brand of education being advocated is that type of education in which is embedded the spirit of self realization and all that are needed for the country’s over all development like mass literacy, economic
empowerment etc.
Literacy rate in India

The male literary rate was 75% according to the 2001 Census, the female literacy rate was 54.16%

According to the 2011 Census, the male literacy rate is 82.14 while female literacy rate is 65.46 only.

Welfare schemes for women

1. Mahila Samakhya Programme:
New Education policy of 1968 led to the launch of Mahila Samakhya Programme in 1988 for the empowerment of rural women belonging to socio-economical weaker section.

2. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme
(KGBV): Girls are educated to primary level through KGBV.

It basically works in rural areas where female literacy is low.

3. National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL): Girls who are not incentivized through SSA are covered by NPEGEL.

4. Saakshar Bharat Mission for Female Literacy: This mission was launched with an objective to bring down the female illiteracy.