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Girls Education and Challenges of Child Marriage-An Impact on the Society
Dr. Akshatha Paranjyothi Kumar ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This paper looks at how India's National Education Policy 2020 deals with girls' education and child marriage. It argues that child marriage is one of the biggest barriers to girls' schooling and to reaching Sustainable Development Goal 4. It lists poverty, unemployment, economic backwardness and superstitious beliefs as leading causes of child marriage. It also notes that poor families often favour boys when investing in education, and that some schools do not meet girls' safety, hygiene or sanitation needs.
Key points
- NEP 2020 provides for a Gender Inclusion Fund to help provide equitable quality education for all girls.
- Most girls are described as being forced to marry early, leading to health problems and limits on personality development and empowerment.
- Poverty, unemployment, economic backwardness and superstitious beliefs are named as main factors behind child marriage.
- Poor and uneducated families often favour boys when investing in education.
- Some schools do not meet girls' safety, hygiene or sanitation needs.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so the methods, data and detailed findings of the policy analysis are not shown. The claims are stated without figures or evidence, and the paper does not evaluate whether any intervention works.
Abstract
Education is the fundamental concept in order to attain human potential, to develop an equitable and just society, thereby providing universal access to quality education and also in promoting national development. The global education development agenda reflected in the Goal 4 (SDG4) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by our nation in 2015 itself seeks to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality of education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" by 2030. NEP 2020 provides for setting up a Gender Inclusion Fund (GIF) to build the nation's capability to provide equitable quality education for all girls. But Girls education is a big challenge to India and it is also very difficult to develop the girls socially and economically as child marriage is one of the biggest obstacle. Though NEP offers an equity model in giving education, most of the girls are forced to marry at an early age which results in a plethora of problems such as health issues, personality development, and empowerment of women and so on. If we look into the dominant factors that lead to child marriage we can list out the issues of poverty, unemployment, economic backwardness, and superstitious beliefs among the lead factors. We can also notice the typical stereotypical issue of gender-based violence in imparting education to young girls. Poor and uneducated families usually favor boys when they deviate their mind in investing for education. In some places, schools do not meet the safety, hygiene or sanitation needs of girls. This paper focuses on analyzing the New Education Policy 2020 in addressing the girls education and the challenges of the child marriage which is one of the barrier to achieve the goal being set up by SDG4.