- Literacy rate of Indian women is 65% against 83% of men.
- School dropout rate amongst adolescent girls in India is as high as 63.5% (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation - MoSPI, 2012)
- Nearly 45% girls In India get married before the age of eighteen years (National Family Health Survey III - NFHS).
- Lack of sanitary protection causes 23% of girls to drop out of school
- 56% adolescent girls (15-19 years) in India are anaemic, as against 30% adolescent boys (National Family Health Survey III - NFHS)
- 50 to 60% of girl children do not go beyond their primary schooling
still high in India.
In Female development index ( given considering all factors like education, discrimination , growth chances , safety etc ), India is behind Srilanka and Burma.
Govt should answer when can we really celebrate!
Thanks
Gopi Gandi
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