Girls ’Education in India: Status and Challenges

Girls ’education is a big opportunity for India to be developed socially and economically. Educated girls ’are the weapons who yield positive impact on the Indian society through their contribution at home and professional fields. They are the reason of improved economy in the country as well as society. The objectives of the paper are: to assertion recent status and challenges of girl's education in India; to provide possible suggestions to overcome the challenges of girls ’education in India. The investigator has used different type articles, reports, research papers, books, official websites, and online materials to conduct this study. The paper has been divided into four parts. The first part of the paper highlights about the historical background and importance of girls ’education in India. The second part of the paper discusses about the recent status of girls ’education in India. The third part of the paper elaborates about major initiatives have been taken by the Government of India for improving girls ’education and different challenges of girls ’education in India. The last part of the paper provides suggestions for overcoming the barriers of girls ’education in India. The paper concludes that girls ’education is very poor condition in elementary and secondary stage than the higher education. At elementary and secondary level girls ’enrolment rate has been decreased from 2012 to 2015, but girls ’gross enrolment ratio has been increased at higher education level from 2012 to 2015. Parental attitude, lack of infrastructure, lack of security, superstations related to girls, socio-economic condition of parents are the major challenges for promoting girls ’education in India. This paper suggests that higher authorities, community members, NGOs and all citizens of India must have to take responsibility to eradicate different barriers related to girls ’education from our society.