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Educational Management

Notes (5) Special stipends should be given to girls in high and higher secondary schools with aptitude
for teaching.
(6) Whenever possible husbands and wives should be posted in the same place even if they
work in different departments of the Government.
(7) Free training should be imparted with stipends to all candidates of training institutions.
(8) In-service education training should be given to untrained women teachers who have put in
at least two years of service. The period of training of education should be treated as on
duty.

II. Proper Supervision and Guidance : For providing proper guidance and supervision, following
steps should be taken :
(a) Increase in the number of women inspecting officers, particularly in the backward states, at
different levels including State level and Directorate level.
(b) Provision of adequate transport for all district women inspecting officers.

(c) Adequate office staff and equipments.
(d) Residential facilities to all women officers at all levels.
(e) Adequate funds at the disposal of the State Council for closer contact with rural areas.
III. Facilities for Education of Adult Women : Girls education and education of adult women
suffers on account of lack of social education. This problem can be tackled in the following
ways :
(1) By opening adult literacy classes in large number.
(2) By teaching simple skills like sewing, knitting, handicrafts etc., and knowledge of basic
principles of health and food habits.
(3) New attitudes towards community living, family planning, superstitions, caste, etc.
This programme can be tackled effectively with the help of the Education Department in
cooperation with other departments concerned like the Community Development, Health
and Social Welfare.
IV. Eradicating Social Ills : The Purdah System (in some States such as in Orissa, Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar and Rajasthan) and certain other harmful social customs in these States and in others
stand in the way of the development of girls’ education. In some places caste barriers also
contribute to this. Social reformers and other voluntary organisations may be motivated to take
up this work.
V. Wide Systematic Publicity : For educating the parents to take interest in the education of girls,
press and electronic media may be used extensively.
VI. Awards to Panchayats : Panchayats should be given some motivation to take up work in this
area.

Concluding Remarks : The role of women outside the home has become an important feature of the
social and economic life of the country and in the years to come this will become still more significant.
From this point of view greater attention will have to be paid to the problems of training and
development of women. The education of girls, therefore, should be emphasised not only on grounds
of social justice, but also because it accelerates economic and social transformation.
Education for Women’s Equality
Education will be used as an agent of basic change in the status of woman. In order to neutralise the
accumulated distortions of the past, there will be a well conceived edge in favour of women. The
National Education system will play a positive, interventionist role in the empowerment of women.
It will foster the development of new values through redesigned, curricula, textbooks, the training

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