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Educational Management

Notes (2) Maintenance stipends to girls residing in hostels for meeting their board and lodging expenses,
at least in part.
(3) Subsidised transport facilities, wherever necessary and possible.
(4) All priority to be given to the construction of suitable buildings for girl’s schools.
(5) Free education for girls.
III. Removing Economic Backwardness of the Rural and Backward Areas : The girls are very
useful at home for carrying out domestic duties and so mothers are reluctant to send them to
school. A large number of children in the rural areas are under-nourished. They hardly have a
square meal a day. Unless the parents are given some kind of economic relief, it will be impossible
to achieve the targets.
Following measures should prove very useful :
(1) Free uniforms and free books to the needy and deserving children should be provided.
(2) Attendance scholarships which serve as a compensation to the parents should be given. This
will also ensure reduction of wastage and stagnation.
(3) Mid-day meals should be made available free of charge.
IV. Conservative Nature of Parents and Co-education : Parents in rural areas and backward
communities tend not to send the girls to co-educational schools. Their apprehensions have to
be removed with a thought-out plan of educating them in this regard (see next part).
V. Provision of Suitable Curriculum : Curriculum, by and large, has not met the requirements of
women.
Following suggestions Committee (1962) deserve careful consideration :
(1) No differentiation should be made in the curricula for boys and girls at the primary and
middle stages of education.
(2) Steps should be taken to improve the instruction of home economics.

(3) Steps should be taken to improve the teaching of music and fine arts and liberal financial
assistance should also be made available to girls’ schools for the introduction of these courses.
(4) Universities should review periodically the provision they have made for the courses designed
to meet the special needs of girls and take necessary action to remove the deficiencies
discovered.
VI. Proper Incentives to Parents and Girls : The following measures have been suggested :
(1) The number of attendance scholarships should be doubled in the Ninth Plan.
(2) The allowance of the School Mothers should be enhanced so that qualified women may be
attracted to take up the work.
(3) The number of maintenance stipends should be doubled in the Ninth Plan and the rate of
such stipends should be adequately increased in view of the rising prices all over the country.

(4) The number of sanitary blocks in co-educational primary schools be adequately increased
during the Ninth Plan.
(5) Larger allocation of funds should be made in the budget for construction of hostels for girls
during the Ninth Plan.

16.2 Promotion of Need based Educational Programmes
Government has made many constitutional provisions and promoting methods which are beneficial
give need based education to social weaker sections.

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