Importance of Education for Girl Child.

Education is every child's basic right and forms the crux of societal and individual development. As a country identified with the lowest literacy levels for women and girls, education for the girl child becomes crucial to women empowerment and development. More often than not, it is women from the rural backdrops of the country that are subjected to lack of education and thus, lack of opportunities. Even for those with access to education, the quality of rural education leads them nowhere. This makes it imperative for important steps towards access to quality education for the girl child and the underprivileged children.

Rights based, equal-opportunities education, particularly education for the girl child, acts as the primary vehicle which works to lift them out of poverty and obtain the means to participate in their communities by being well-informed and good decision makers. The global community and the world bodies like the United Nations time and again underline the need to focus on urgent national and international step to be taken for ensuring educational for the girl child. Hundreds of millions of young children, mostly girls,  

throughout the world are often deprived of education along with other essential needs like adequate food, clothing and health care. Going by these yardsticks, the development of a Nation is truly measured by many indicators and among them literacy levels especially of women and girl children are vital. 

The literacy drive among the girl child would work as a catalyst for social uplift and there by ensure National progress . Keeping this as the desired endeayour, eradication of illiteracy and bringing the girl child into the realm of education has been a major National concern for last so many decades. Here, it would be only relevant to point to a puplication by the Directorate of Adult Education a, few years back where in a compendium 'Literacy in India' carried a cover page showing a young village girl holding the slate inscribed on it words, "अब मैं लिख सकती हूँ ". The picture-story only rightly emphasizes on the importance of education for girl child and how gender inequity in literacy drive continues to remain a serious challenge.Female education and the literacy drive have given the girl child the much - needed respect she has been striving . The real success story has been that it has mobilized people to think and to express themselves. The demand for a closer involvement between literacy and skill development training has also emerged.