IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sdc/journl/v10y2023i4p13-22.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Understanding Social development of girl child through education from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV)

Author

Listed:
  • Laxmi Narayan Nayak

Abstract

Democratic India with her constitutional commitments had targeted to offer justice to the marginalized sections through welfare measures and development initiatives. Education is one of the major sectors to bring social transformation. Among the excluded and deprived social groups, the condition of the girl child remained always worse than the boys. Education can bring greater participation of women in family, social, economic and political matters. The paradigm of social development is well achieved through education. It is commonly said that teaching a woman means teaching a family, so by educating women, we can propel society towards development. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) scheme is a step forward in this direction. The immense potential of the scheme helps in recovering the losses that girls faced in being pushed out of formal schools due to multiple reasons. The implication of this scheme is to provide a second chance for dropout girls to explore their possibilities towards empowerment. Primary data from a KGBV in the Deogarh district of Odisha was collected for the study. The present study thus is an attempt to focus on how KGBV brings on social development among girl children. It is found that girls debarred from education due to distance from school had been brought to the educational fold following the selection criteria of KGBV, and are satisfied with the facilities provided in the KGBV. Satisfaction helps in building their aspirations for the future which contributes to their process for social development.

Suggested Citation

  • Laxmi Narayan Nayak, 2023. "Understanding Social development of girl child through education from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV)," Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: 2348-7038, Voices of Inclusive Change and Expressions- (VOICE) Trust, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, vol. 10(4), pages 13-22, October-D.
    • Handle: RePEc:sdc:journl:v:10:y:2023:i:4:p:13-22
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://jsdconline.com/journal/jsdc/index.php/home/article/view/96/66
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://jsdconline.com/journal/jsdc/index.php/home/article/view/96
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sdc:journl:v:10:y:2023:i:4:p:13-22. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sitesh Saran Nayak (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.