In India, a lot of parents are not motivated towards sending their female children to school. This has resulted in a lot of Indian girls not being educated, which is not good for the ladies in particular and the countries in general. Based on this, awareness is being creating to encourage parents to invest on girls’ education in India. There are a number of steps that could be taken to improve education and rights of a girl child in India.
1. Awareness Creating awareness is very vital in the promoting girls education in India or any part of the world for that matter. Individuals and organizations can take it upon their selves to educate the populace on the importance of sending their female children to school and how it would be of benefit for them in the long run. There are a lot of options for creating this awareness. The options include, but not limited to, through media houses such as television and radio stations as well as newspapers and magazines, through placing of stickers at strategic places and by going house to house to educate individuals about why they should send their female children to school. The aim would be to get across to as many people as possible and give them the requisite information that would encourage them to educate their children.
2. Government policies Government policy is another vital means through which girls education in India can be carried out. The government policies should enforce that parents must send their children to school at a particular age. It should also make primary and secondary education compulsory for every child, irrespective of if they are male or female. Based on this, punishments and sanctions could be meted out to parents who prevent their children from going to school. The sanctions would come in handy in forcing parents who do not want to send their children to school, especially their female children, to send them to school irrespective.
3. Encouragements There is the need to put in place programs and activities that would encourage parents to send their children to school. First of all, the government could make education at the primary and secondary level to be free of charge. This would take away the excuse of being unable to avoid the money to send such children to school. Furthermore, other means of encouragements could include provision of school uniform and books for the children and provision of free meals for the children. Among others, the private sector could also support the government in this regard by paying for some of these expenses. Before these programs are put in place, such private establishments could organize scholarship programs for children, with some of the scholarships particularly aimed towards girls education in India. This would go a long way in helping parents that desire to send their children to school, but do not have the means to do so. Education loans could also be provided by the government and private organizations
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