Education for girls is a big concern not now in today’s world but earlier also. In India girls’ education system is a very serious concern. Some parents from backward region can’t afford the education for girls, and some parents thought that girl’s child is born to take care only of house and their wards. Many parents have the safety concern for their girl child. Globally there are around 130 million girls who are not enrolled in schools.

When a girl receives the quality education, then she can find many benefits in all aspects of life. She can make her future brighter, she will learn to compete in the competitive environment. They can contribute to their home with higher income source which help the whole family in improving standard of living.

Boarding schools in India also give a big contribution on this concern. Most of the boarding schools provides many additional facilities to promote girl education. They thought about the problems facing by the parents to send their girl child out for studies and conclude with the solution.

Problems faced by girl child to get quality education

Keeping girls in school supports economic growth, promotes peace, and even helps fight climate change. To protect the future of a girl child we must have to bring the change in the policies and the system. Problems like: -

• Safety

  Safety is the main concern for the parents and the girls also due to which parents will hesitate to send their girl child out for quality education. It just completely broke the parents when they listen the news that young girls brutally tortured by some monsters. But the boarding schools in India ensures the safety of girl child on priority. As they have separate buildings for the girl students in which the working staff is also female. They also do have the CCTV cameras and the armed guards who continuously monitor them. Single entry and exit are ensured at the main gate.

• Cost

  Poverty or lack of money is the big problem for parents which determines that a girl child can access the education or not. However, there are many initiatives taken by the government to promote the girl’s education.

Government initiatives for Girl child Education

In India many programs are run by the government to promote Girl Child Education like,

• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme
• Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY)
• National Girl Child Day
• National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMS) Scheme
• Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
• National Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Girls

Affordable Girls Boarding schools like “Amatir Kanya Gurukul, Kurukshetra” also provides many schemes for the girl education. They support parents by providing subsidized fees. The facilities for a girl from a poor background is same as they offer to the other students. This will help in bringing the equality among the students.

• Child Marriage

There are about 700 million women around the world who were married as girls. Parents will let their daughters into the child marriage under the age of 18 due to various reasons. This will affect negatively in the growth of the girl child and also hamper her education. Some parents support their daughter in law for further studies but most of them are not supported. In “Girls boarding schools” the basics of a girl’s life is taught. They will create such an environment in which girl child get comfortable to share their problems with their mentor.

• Household Work

In India most of the girl child were engaged in the household works. This will result in losing their interest in education and they will not able to groom their personality for the competitive world. Engaging a girl into the household works will create a big gender gap in the society. In “boarding schools” students will do their basic work by them self and the girls who were interested in household works will have different stream of subjects through which girl child will study along with her interest and will be prepared for the competitive world.

• Gender Discrimination

Girls around the world facing Gender discrimination from the early age. Girls are treated as soft in subjects like languages, history, arts and music and boys better at sports, mats, or computing etc. This leads the teasing of girls, boys often making fun of girls that they are soft or not strong as boys. But now a days scenario has changed, girls are treated as equivalent as boys in every field. “Best Girls Boarding schools in India” maintains the gender equality through various competitions between the boys and the girls. In today’s world there are many examples where girls give a tough competition to the boys. Earlier parents not allow their girl child to compete with the boys, but in “boarding schools” mentors will encourage the girl student to give a tough competition, and also ensuring that there is no teasing, or harassment by the boy students.

• Gender Discrimination

Girls around the world facing Gender discrimination from the early age. Girls are treated as soft in subjects like languages, history, arts and music and boys better at sports, mats, or computing etc. This leads the teasing of girls, boys often making fun of girls that they are soft or not strong as boys. But now a days scenario has changed, girls are treated as equivalent as boys in every field. “Best Girls Boarding schools in India” maintains the gender equality through various competitions between the boys and the girls. In today’s world there are many examples where girls give a tough competition to the boys. Earlier parents not allow their girl child to compete with the boys, but in “boarding schools” mentors will encourage the girl student to give a tough competition, and also ensuring that there is no teasing, or harassment by the boy students.

What we can do?

To ensures the high rate of educated girls firstly as a parent we have to change our mind sets. We should have to send our girl child to the schools, colleges. Thiis will help the society in very aspects. Parents from rural areas have to send their girl child to the “boarding school” where they get help in many issues either it is finance issue, safety concern, gender inequality, etc. Parent have to take the benefits of various government programs to promote a girl child.

Effects of Boarding School Education on Girls

An educated girl can give a large contribution to the society. An educated girl is not likely to get agree upon the early marriage. She will think about her future, a better living standard. It will affect in their life in many ways, like: -

• Self-Dependency

  Education makes a girl self-dependent. It will help in running the family much smoother along with her partner that results increasing in standard of living.

• Decision Maker

  Self-dependent women will have the power to take of decision making

• Gender Equality

  When a girl is self-depended and facing the competitive environment so it results in the gender equality. Educated girls will always promotes the education for girls. They know that how can a educated girl can change the society. It will also help in the women empowerment.

• Contribution to the Society

  An educated girl can contribute a lot towards the society. If the girl’s education rate is good in a country the they are more dependent. As now a days more than 40% of girls are unpaid household workers comparing to the boys. If they girls have good purchasing power then the GDP rate will increase by itself.

Literacy rate in India

As of August 2024, the literacy rate of female is 65.46% compared to 82.42% of males in India.

Below is the list of States & Union Territories with literacy rates.

Source: - Survey by National Statistical Office (NSO). *UTs & NE States

Level of Educatipon at different age groups

Percentage distribution of rural persons(ages 15 years & above by highest completed levels of education)

• 31.5% were not literate,

• 20.9% were literate up to primary

• 17.2% were of level upper primary/middle,

• 24.9% were of levels secondary and higher secondary

• 5.7% were graduates & above.

Percentage distribution of urban persons (age 15 years & above by highest completed level of education)

• 13.9%were not literate

• 14.7% were literate up to the primary,

• 14.0% were of level upper primary/middle,

• 35.8% were of levels secondary and higher secondary

• 21.7% were graduates & above.

Source: - survey by National Statistical Office (NSO)

Conclusion

Girls Boarding schools in India will contribute very much for the girl’s education system. They follow the rules strictly which helps in grooming a girl child. “Girls Boarding schools” make the girl child stronger so that she can face the competitive environment as equivalent as boys. The literacy rate of the girls is very low as compared with the boys in India. One of the most common reasons is that in rural areas boys are treated as more useful than girls due to which parents hesitates to send their girls child to the school compared to boys. Rather than sending them to the school they involve them in house hold works. “Girls’ Residential schools in Dehradun” is the place who also counsel the parents and also aware the parents about the importance of girl’s education in their life. And also providing various government added schemes through which extra burden is not imposed on parents.