From special scholarships to capacity building, Govt opens various gateways for girls in higher education!
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New Delhi, Jun 28: Today world is wide open for everyone who wants to work hard and grab the opportunity, with this, Indian women also are in spite of traditional roles, now making their imprint on every aspect of life. Making this girl power more solid, the Indian government has taken several steps to increase the enrolment of girls in higher studies.
The information about these initiatives was given by the Union Minister for Human Resource, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.
Various schemes were undertaken and implemented by Indian govt for girls in higher education-
- The University Grants Commission (UGC) has two specific schemes for the promotion of Women’s Studies in Universities & Colleges namely: (i) Development of Indian Studies in Indian Universities & Colleges and (ii) Capacity Building and Women Managers in Higher Education.
- For supporting single girl child, special scholarship schemes are there namely: (1) Post-Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child and (2) Swami Vivekananda Single Girl Child Scholarship for Research in Social Science.
- UGC has special schemes for the promotion of women hostels in Universities and Colleges and establishment of Day Care Centres therein.
- UGC has provided support for eight exclusive women universities.
- The All India Council for Technical Education is implementing the PRAGATI scholarship scheme for the assistance of girls pursuing technical education.
- To improve female enrolment in the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the Government has decided to increase female enrolment in B. Tech. Programs of IITs from the current 8% to 14% in 2018-19, 17% in 2019-20 and 20% in 2020-21 by creating supernumerary seats.
- The Government has also decided to increase female enrolment from existing 14% to 20% over a period of 2-4 years by creating supernumerary seats in undergraduate programs of National Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.