Tag: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
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Access to School Education for Girls in India: Impact & Interventions for Change
One of the major challenges of the education system in India is to address gender disparities in terms of enrolment and drop-out rates of the girl child. The dismal female literacy rate in 1981 was at 28.47% and increased to 65.46% in 2011 as opposed to the male literacy rate of 82.14% in 2011. The…
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Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan: A Major Overhaul in India’s Education Sector?
By Vishu Surana, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela realized 30 years ago that education is the most essential tool for social, economic and political transformation and a key instrument for building a just society. For a country like India…