India has been continually trying to tackle the problem of girls' education. Attempts have been made to enroll more girls in schools.
Although female literacy has gone up but the levels are low in comparison to male literacy. This is because they are surrogate‘ mothers, they cook and fetch potable water, fuel and fodder hence do not go to school. Many schemes like the “foster parent scheme” have been introduced to take care of girls education. It is an uphill task as girls education is linked to rural poverty ignorance and illiteracy of the parent's.
The scenario that unfolds before us gives room for both robust optimism and less complacency. Women are today venturing into different fields breaking the male monopoly in political arena, administration, science and technology, journalism and the like in fact, in certain professions like medicine, nursing care, teaching. social work and the like they have proved to be better than men. Today, they are briskly walking into the higher levels of administration, science and technology academics, corporate sector, etc. not to speak of those who have made it into politics. But those who have made it to the top rung of the ladder are only a minority. It is with the silent majority with whom both the Government and the community should be more conserved and whose isolation and national mainstream contributes to the top sided socio-economic development of the country.