Incentive to Marginalized Girls for Secondary Education: A Study of National Scheme of Incentive for Girls in Secondary Education

This paper has been published in Peer-reviewed International Journal "Anthology The Research"                     

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Publisher : Social Research Foundation, Kanpur (SRF International) 

Abstract :  Education is the pre-eminent device for the socio-economic, political and cultural transformation. At all times society from different social backgrounds has been interested to undergo the avenues of knowledge. The need of women’s education and its liberating power was needed much more to the Indian society due to redundant age old customs, ‘superstitions’ and rustic traditions of the past. Women’s education in Independent India, though progressed at a low pace, unable to reach the target of fulfilling universality. The trials of making Indian women literate, seems to be an impeccable and uphill task as girls representing the socially challenged sections – landless agricultural labourers and un-lettered masses, could not send their girls to schools due to obvious reasons. The State has organized a wide range of self-evolved strategies and transforming mechanisms for reaching the unreached girls largely to bring issues of women’s education into public discourse through a number of incentives and self-developing programmes attempting and making a crucial paradigm shift from subalternity to social respectability. This paper focuses on the innovative and renovative scheme offered to the secondary school going girls belonging to the underprivileged sections by the government of India – National Scheme of Incentives for Girls Secondary Education (NSIGSE), for accessing, enhancing and retaining all school-going girls to successfully complete schooling and to make a better future. The paper analyzes systematically the scheme, implementation, impact and impression on the school life of girls in the secondary and higher secondary classes, leading into making some impressive hallmarks in the annals of education of girls in India.