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08/03/22 14:30 PM IST

'Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav' scheme

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  • Women's day 2022 will be celebrated all across the globe, March 8, 2022.
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  • India is also geared up to celebrate International women's day 2022 and to empower women various scenes, initiates, shows, etc. are being organised.
  • The Union government has launched 'Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav' scheme with a motive to bring back the out-of-school girls back to the education system.
  • Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav scheme has been launched by the Women and Child Development Ministry in partnership with the Education Ministry.
  • As per the data shared by Women and Child Development Secretary Indevar Pandey, only four lakh out-of-school adolescent girls are visiting the anganwadis for nutrition, nutrition education and skilling.
  • This scheme will fulfil the target of Right To Education act that says to bring out-of-school girls back to the education system. 
  • This scheme has been launched as the Scheme For Adolescent Girls, SAG which was launched to take care of the out-of-school girls, is now getting less effective.
    As per the data, in 2018-19 there were 11.88 lakh girls which were beneficiaries under the SAG scheme and the number drastically came down to 5.03 lakh in 2021.
  • To combat this problem, the Central government has now launched this new scheme to empower women education.
  • In our new scheme under Poshan 2 and Saksham Anganwadi, we will be only taking up girls in the age group of 14-18 years. Girls aged 11-14 years will not be coming into the Anganwadi system in new schooling that will also take care only of the northeastern states and all our aspirational districts.

Source- Times Now 

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