Lok Sabha Question No. 3105 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-06
Subject: Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas and Hostels
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL, MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA, HARISHCHANDRA DEORAM CHAVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3105 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.08.2018

## Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas and Hostels

## †3105.   SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL: SHRI MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA: SHRI HARISHCHANDRA CHAVAN:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Kasturba Gandhi girls hostels and other girls hostels running in the country including Madhya Pradesh under 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' along with the number of girls living in them;
- (b) the number of girls hostels running under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) along with the number of girls living in them;
- (c) whether due to shortage of hostel facilities at higher  secondary level  in comparison to the number of girls living in the hostels for secondary level students is creating hurdles in the education of girl students;
- (d)    if so, whether the Government proposes to increase the hostel facility and if so, the details thereof;
- (e) whether  the  Government  is  also  considering  to  upgrade  all  the  Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika Vidyalayas in the country and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) if not, the reasons therefor and the reaction of the Government thereon?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b): There  are  3703  KGBVs  in  the  country  which  were  sanctioned  under  the  Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), out of which 3697 KGBVs are operational, enrolling 3.78 lakh girls out of which, 207 KGBVs are sanctioned and operational enrolling 29,325 girls in the State of Madhya Pradesh.  Out of the total of the 2549 Girls Hostels sanctioned under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), 1314 Girls Hostels are functional enrolling 1.20 lakh girls out of which 201 Girls Hostels were sanctioned and are functional having enrolment of 19,833 girls, in the State of Madhya Pradesh.

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) are residential schools for girls belonging to disadvantaged  groups  such  as  SC,  ST,  OBC,  Minority  and  Below  Poverty  Line  families.  Till 2017-18, KGBVs were sanctioned for the upper primary level under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

The Girls Hostel Component of erstwhile scheme of RMSA provided hostel facility for girl students in the age group of 14-18 years, studying in classes IX to XII and belonging to SC, ST, OBC, Minority communities and Below Poverty Line families.

(c) to (e): Under  the  newly  launched  Integrated  Scheme  of  School  Education  -  Samagra Shiksha effective from the year 2018-19, provision has been made to upgrade the existing KGBVs at  upper  primary  level  to  upto  Senior  Secondary  level  with  a  capacity  of  150-250  girls  in convergence with the erstwhile Girls Hostel Scheme.  The scheme envisages to provide access and quality education to girls  from  disadvantaged  groups  by  setting  up  residential  schools  from upper primary  to senior secondary level and to ensure smooth transition of girls from elementary to  secondary  and  up  to  class  XII  wherever  possible,  by  ensuring  the  facility  of  at-least  one residential  school for  girls from  Classes  VI-XII  in  every  educationally  backward block.

(f): Does not arise.

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