Topic: Role of parents in furthering education for daughters in mygov.nic.in My Artical: The history of female education in India has its roots in ancient Vedic age. The home has, verily, its foundation in the wife - The Rig VedaDuring the Vedic age, more than 3,000 years ago, women were assigned a high place in society. They shared an equal standing with their men folk and enjoyed a kind of liberty that actually had societal sanctions. Womens employment and education was acknowledged in 1854 by the East India Companys Programme: Woods Dispatch. Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the East India Company, had an important effect on spreading education in India when in 1854 he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India. Slowly, after that, there was progress in female education, but it initially tended to be focused on the primary school level and was related to the richer sections of society. The overall literacy rate for women increased from 0.2% in 1882 to 6% in 1947. After India attained independence in 1947, the University Education Commission was created to recommend suggestions to improve the quality of education. However, their report spoke against female education, referring to it as: Womens present education is entirely irrelevant to the life they have to lead. It is not only a waste but often a definite disability. The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002, has been a path breaking step towards the growth of education, especially for females. A Significant Act the (EIGHTY-SIXTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002 Provides Right to Education until the age of fourteen and Early childhood care until the age of six was presented by then Education Minister Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and proved to be a significant step towards the Education especially the females. And after this Act the literacy rate of women increased up to 65.46% in 2011 and also a positive indication that growth in female literacy rates (11.8%) was substantially faster than in male literacy rates (6.9%) in the 2001–2011 A success Story: Himachal Pradesh underwent a Schooling Revolution in the 1961–2001 period that has been called even more impressive than Keralas. Kerala has led the nation in literacy rates since the 19th century and seen sustained initiatives for over 150 years, whereas Himachal Pradeshs literacy rates in 1961 were below the national average in every age group. In the three decadal 1961–1991 period, female literacy in the 15–19 years age group went from 11% to 86%. School attendance for both boys and girls in the 6–14-year age group stood at over 97% each when measured in the 1998–99 school year. Now these were the Governments Efforts, but coming to the main topic as how the parents can be instrumental in furthering education for their daughters. The first and foremost is the participation of local governing bodies, if mothers are made literate and made aware they will defiantly be in favor of educating their daughters. More over the Skills Development should be launched in the schools along with academic studies. Courses like Beautician, Stitching, soft toy making should be introduced that will help parents to send their daughters to school. Parents should motivate the girls and should not distinguish between the male and female. Today it is an age of digital world and parents should ensure that if they are not giving education to their daughters they are making her an odd one out. Today girls are excelling in every field, be it sports, military, police, engineering, administrative , social work , etc and it’s a moral duty of every parent to encourage their daughters and make them so self reliant that they can look at their parents with pride. With right attitude and positive approach parents should encourage their daughters for studies, gone are the days when a girl after marriage has to be confined to family works, in those days the families were big undivided, but today the families are nuclear and parents should understand the importance of education for their daughters. If a girl is economical free, then the dowry, and other ill practices will come to a halt. So parents should play an effective role in educating there daughters.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:35:09 +0000
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