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Providing Affordable Higher Education to Rural Girls in Indian Punjab: A Case Study of Baba Aya Singh Riarki College

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  • Ranjit Singh Ghuman

    (Centre for Research in Rural & Industrial Development, Chandigarh, India)

  • Indervir Singh

    (Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, India)

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The paper highlights a case study of a rural girls college located in a remote village of Gurdaspur district in Indian Punjab. The idea of this unique college was conceptualised by one Baba Aya Singh, a social and religious activist, from a village near the college way back in 1925. It was really a revolutionary idea because female education in India, particularly higher education, was a distant dream at that time. The college was, however, started with only 14 rural girls after about half-a-century when the great visionary Baba Aya Singh had a dream to educate the rural girls. Access to and affordability of higher education is the uniqueness of this college. The student has to pay only Rs. 5800 (about US $ 65) per annum, which includes both the tuition fee and boarding and lodging. It is equally significant to note that the entire expenses of the college are met by this and the produce of agricultural land of the college. The college does not take any outside help. The meritorious senior class students teach the junior class students. The college in its own humble, but significant, way made a revolutionary contribution to the education of poor rural girls who, otherwise, would not have dreamt of college education. Apart from, class-room teaching and bookish knowledge, the students are taught social, ethical and management skills in a most natural manner. The product of the college has proved to be the agents of change and rural transformation.

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  • Ranjit Singh Ghuman & Indervir Singh, 2013. "Providing Affordable Higher Education to Rural Girls in Indian Punjab: A Case Study of Baba Aya Singh Riarki College," Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, University of Petrosani, Romania, vol. 13(2), pages 61-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:pet:annals:v:13:y:2013:i:2:p:61-84
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    Keywords

    affordable higher education; rural female education; rural transformation; management by students; each one teaches one;
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    JEL classification:

    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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