5th_APRIL 1ST_2015

INDIA@NEW INITIATIVES
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Digital Gender Atlas for Girls' Education
in India
Nearly every month or
perhaps every fortnight
new projects and new
initiatives are being
launched by the
Narendra Modi led BJP
government and yet so
one-sided is the
discourse, so biased is
mainstream media's
reporting of facts that
the other view point,
the reality that
governance is now
abound with new
energy and new
dynamism hardly ever
gets space or receives
due mention. In its 300
days the Modi
Government has
launched a number of
innovative initiatives,
each keeping in mind
all sections of society,
especially those that
need support and
strength in order to
move ahead. We, at The
Nationalist, feel happy
and driven to keep
sharing these “national
positives” with our
readers, workers and
supporters with the
hope that truth shall
find light and be widely
disseminated.
The MHRD, Department of decisions and actions in
School Education and pockets where gaps are to
Literacy, recently pre- be met. The Gender Atlas
sented the Digital Gender enables the user to navi-
Atlas for Advancing Girls' gate between geographical
Education in India. The r e p r e s e n t a t i o n a n d
tool will help identify low numeric data at state,
performing geographic district and block levels
pockets for girls, particu- and gives information on
larly from marginalised key indicators for girls'
groups such as scheduled education at primary,
castes, schedule tribes and upper primary and second-
Muslim minorities, on ary level. No primary data
specific gender related has been generated for the
education indicators. The development of the atlas.
Atlas has been placed on The main components of
the MHRD website and is the Gender Atlas are : (i)
available and ready to be C o m p o s i t e G e n d e r
used by States /Dis- R a n k i n g ( i i ) T r e n d
tricts/Blocks education A n a l y s i s o f G e n d e r
administrators or any I n d i c a t o r s ( i i i )
other interested group. In Vulnerabilities based on
order to plan and execute educational indicators in
educational interventions, districts with substantial
the purpose of the Gender tribal, schedule caste,
Atlas is to help identify and minority population in
ensure equitable education educationally backward
with a focus on vulnerable blocks and in districts
girls, including girls with afflicted with Left wing
disabilities. To ensure this extremism and the low sex
is feasible, the Gender ratio districts selected
Atlas has been developed under Beti Bachao Beti
as a hands-on manage- Padhao programme.
ment tool to enable critical
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