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The Feminine Power By Balarka Brahma

A focus on girls’ education in India has put in place since the 1986 National Policy on Education and the 1992 Program of Action, followed by the SSA program launched in 2001, National Curriculum Framework in 2005 and the National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education in 2010.

Despite all these efforts, surprisingly, a large number of girls still remain outside the education system. According to UNICEF India, out of 81% girls joining school at the primary level, around 50% drop out at the secondary level. Drop out in girls education has become an epidemic in India now.

If we try to find out, there are plenty of socio economic problems as well and sometimes these are the biggest problems to send a girl to school and stand her in life. Main reason is poverty. Many talented children have been forcefully left school because their parents are unable to provide the money for their education.

But some of them fight against these odds valiantly and keep faith on their will to reach their ultimate goal. From morning to night sometime they fight against the society, sometime against their parents and even sometime against their own motivation.----IPA Balarka Brahma

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儘管印度政府做了很多努力，但許多女孩仍然被排除在教育體制之外。據駐印度聯合國兒童基金會表示， 81％的女生有受基層的學校教育，但 50％左右在中學階段會輟學。在印度輟學女孩的教育現在已成為一種通病。

如果我們試圖找出原因來，主要是社會經濟問題，有時這些被送來上學的女孩，同時會成為她生活中最大的問題，主要的原因是貧窮。許多天才兒童被強迫離開學校，因為他們的父母無法為他們的教育提供資金。女孩在這方面是最常見的弱勢目標。在印度女孩依然被視為結婚的“材料”，到一定年齡後她們必須要結婚，甚至在一些地區的女孩於出生時都沒人要，這因素導致而會墮除女胎。印度獨立60多年後，有此看法的已經改變很少了。有時父母強迫他們從學校輟學，並強迫她們出去就業，以增加家庭的收入。很常見的是女孩會成為人口販運的目標，這也妨礙了她們的教育。

但她們之中也有會堅持意志，努力對抗社會與父母，以達到她們的最終目標。

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579/17/2013 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C All photos were taken from internert.

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