Education Of The Deprived Social Group: With Special Refference to the Girl’s Education of Tinsukia District through KGBV (Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya) With Field Study.

Abstract

Nearly half of the total population in our country(India) are women while majority of them belong to rural area. These women are in a very deplorable condition which makes the whole society backward. They are always discriminated from womb to tomb. They are powerless not only politically but also socially and economically due to many causes such as illiteracy, poverty, ignorance, superstitions etc....etc....Women are considered as the weakest part of our society and they are always deprived social groups from all side. It is needless to acknowledge that women’s literacy & education levels help secure social equality and human development, higher economic productivity and a tolerant democratic society which the National Policy on Education,1986 has identified as a challenge in India. Latest contribution in the field of girls education is made by the SSA mission which introduced a very novel ideal of providing residential schooling facilities to the girls education up to class V111 by a special school called Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV). KGBV is a scheme to provide elementary level quality and life skill educational facilities to girl children of the age group of 10-14 years for illiterate girl children, working girl children who have not completed class1V-V11 and who belong to SC/ST/OBC and minority communities. Under this scheme residential school and hostel accommodation for girls is established in the educationally backward block, towns and minority concentrated areas of all over the country. In Assam 26(model-1=3 & model-11=23) nos. of KGBVs running with 1450 children in 13 districts ( as per census 2008-09). There are 3 KGBVs in 3 blocks of Tinsukia district which have been chosen in the most educationally backward areas of the district. All the 3 KGBVs of Tinsukia district included in the present study. The overall influence of these organisations on the girls education at the elementary stage of the district will be analysed and examined by the present study.