Lok Sabha Question No. 2011 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-13
Subject: Enrollment of Girls in Government Schools in Bihar
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sanjay Jaiswal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2011 ANSWERED ON 13/03/2023

## Enrollment of Girls in Government Schools in Bihar

## 2011. DR. SANJAY JAISWAL:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  the number of girls enrolled in Government schools in rural Bihar;
- (b)  the drop-out rate of girls from primary education in rural Bihar;

(c)  whether  the  Government  has  identified  specific  reasons  for  the  drop-out  of  girls  from primary education in rural Bihar;

(d) if so, the details thereof; and

(e)  the  details  of  the  various  schemes/plans  of the Government to reduce the drop-out rate of girls?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a):  The number of girls enrolled in Government schools in rural Bihar are 1,01,48,025.

(b) to (d): The drop-out rate of girls from primary education in rural Bihar is zero percent. In this connection, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 provides that no child  admitted  in  a  school  shall  be  held  back  in  any  class  or  expelled  from  school  till  the completion of elementary education.

(e):  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  (DoSEL),  Ministry of Education  is implementing  the  scheme  of  Samagra  Shiksha,  a  centrally  sponsored  scheme,  effective  from 2018-19, for universalization of quality education throughout the country in coordination with the States and UTs. Bridging gender and social category gaps at all levels of school education is one of the major objectives of the Samagra Shiksha. In order to ensure greater participation of girls in schools and to reduce drop-out of girls, various interventions have been targeted under Samagra  Shiksha  which  include  opening  of  schools  in  the  neighbourhood  as  defined  by  the State,  provision  of  free  text-books  &  uniforms  to  girls  up  to  Class  VIII,  provision  of  gender segregated toilets in all schools, teachers' sensitization programmes  to promote girls' participation, provision for self-defence training for the girls from classes VI to XII, stipend to CWSN  girls  from  Class  I  to  Class  XII,  construction  of  residential  quarters  for  teachers  in renote/hilly  areas/in  areas  with  difficult  terrain,  vocationalization  of  secondary  education, special projects for equity such as life skills, awareness programmes, incinerators, sanitary pad vending machines. In order to reduce gender gaps at all levels of school education, there is a provision of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidayalayas sanctioned in Educationally Backward Blocks under Samagra Shiksha, which are residential schools from class VI to XII for girls belonging to disadvantaged groups such as SC, ST, OBC, Minority and Below Poverty Line. Additionally, all States and UTs have been requested to proactively track girls as well as transgender children, who are not enrolled in schools or have dropped-out without completing their School Education and get them admitted in age-appropriate classes in schools.

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