Elimination
of Gender Disparity:
- To
eliminate gender disparity and ensure wide participation of women in
development activities, 60 per cent posts of teachers have been reserved for
female teachers. As a result, percentage of female teachers at present has
reached 37.6 per cent. The policy to appoint more women as officials at
various levels of the management of primary education has been implemented.
More opportunities of admission of girls in schools are being created.
Separate toilets are also being constructed in primary schools for girls. To
encourage more women to join primary schools as teachers, steps have been
taken to raise the residential capacity of the women’s hostels at the
Primary Training Institutes (PTIs). While students are enrolled the names of
both mother and father are being registered. For payment of stipend money to
the students provision has been made to open the bank account in mother’s
name. Massive social mobilization programmes have been undertaken to
encourage guardians to send girl child to schools. These steps have
contributed to the increase of girl enrolment bringing gender parity.
Present boys and girls ratio is 51:49.
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