Article 14 of the Constitution of India states that “The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.” but when it comes to women in India, it is a well-established fact that they have always faced the wrath of discrimination. The relevant point here is, the gender gap created in the Indian Society is due to gender discrimination faced by women. The gender gap in literacy and education is an important dimension in gender inequality, and it is contingent on socio, cultural, and economic factors. The levels of hardship faced by women are further exacerbated and they become even more vulnerable when one kind of discrimination (gender in this particular instance) adds up with the other, like discrimination based on caste, class, religion, etc. According to the Census Report of 2011, Jharkhand has a considerable number of tribals, i.e. 26% of the total population of the state (Office of the Registrar General, India). The occupation of a majority of tribal people is agriculture, whose productivity is generally low, therefore most of the tribal girls contribute to the family income by participating in the family occupation and by also engaging in domestic chores. Since a high proportion of them engage in survival tasks, many of them are prevented from enrolling in schools (NSSO, 1990). According to the Jharkhand Economic Survey conducted in 2015-16, the enrolment of girl students at primary and upper primary levels was found to be 50%. Moreover, female literacy in urban areas was 77.5 per cent in comparison to about 55.2 per cent in rural areas. Further, Jharkhand has the highest dropout rate for school children in India (only 30 out of 100 finish school). Dropout rates among Adivasis are the highest among all communities. On the contrary, Jharkhand adopted the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in 2011 by specifying its own rules and regulations extracted from the original version of the act passed by the parliament. Article 45 of the constitution provides that, “The State shall endeavour to provide, within a period of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution, for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years.” The researcher, therefore, considering the aforementioned information would like to research on the status of girls’ primary education in Jharkhand.