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Importance of Girl Child

There is a famous saying, educate a man, you educate one person, educate a woman, you educate a
complete family but how many of us really believes in it? It is been confirmed by reports that more
than 50 percent of girls in India fail to enroll in school and those who do are likely to drop out by the age
of 12.Lack of education and illiteracy in girls denies them to have good knowledge and skills needed for
enhancing their status in society. Educating girl child helps in realizing her hidden potential, gives her
freedom to think, act, question and judge world smartly and independently. Imparting education to girls
makes them wise decision maker, teaches civic sense and help them to lead a respectful life. Educating
girl child is never wastage of money or resources instead it is a better investment for parents as once
girls get employed, they will think of their parents before boys who will think of their own family first.
Educated girls have better knowledge about health and hygiene in homes which improves families as
they know what to do and how to do. Denying education to girl child means destroying her talents. It
has been seen that number of girls has been successful and helpful to communities and if good
education is imparted to them, they can become good leaders who are more development oriented
than men.
World of a girl child is promising but yet very gloomy, it is full of hope but still in hopeless situation.
Daughter is the one that knots the whole family together in one. She is the one that makes our life extra
special and brings extra sunshine, laughter and happiness to our daily life. A Woman is one that shapes
the civilization. It is very sad that most of the girls that are born in our country are not found in hospital
they got missing and are found in the graveyard. Various studies have confirmed that illiterate women
have high levels of maternal mortality, low earning potential and poor nutritional status. Remember
that if you want your community to grow and develop, avoid leaving section of girls behind in terms of
education. We need all groups of society well-educated for proper development of nation. Girls should
be taken as boys and women should be handled at par with men. India is a developing country and in
recent years its development has grown very dynamically in every field. India is making its name in
world with the boom in its economy, technology development, new innovations in the technology and
also the infrastructure has improved also, and this is making India proud. But still there are some
persons or cultures that are biasing against a girl child in their family. This is the most dangerous social
evil that has deep roots in our country. And the shocking fact is that there are high technologies and
innovative techniques are available for killing a girl child like ultrasound, scan tests and amniocentesis
etc. What we need now is to know that every family in the country should be educated on the whole
country basis that Girl Child is not a sin it is a gift to you given by the God to you, as she has nothing less
than boys. Today girls are competing boys in every field and making their name in every field and
pushing back every one. We all are the proud citizens of India. Now is the time to realize our
responsibility towards our country and we should make a halt to this evil crime. What can we do to stop
this brutal and undesirable practice of mass killing girls in our country? There is a need now only a single
determined spark of light can lit the lamp and can make a cause to stop this all nonsense that is going on

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in our country make an effort from yourself then every one will be effected. Lets make it possible and
show the world that we are the child of the great Mother India. So there are many reason through we
should save a girl child and tomorrow she will become someone's mother, sister, wife, daughter etc.
It is sad to reveal that more than 10 million girls have been killed by their parents either before or after
they were born in India. Not only this, number of girls that are fully vaccinated is 5% points lower than
that of boys. If girl child is neglected in first few years of her survival, she has to come up with less food
rights throughout her growing years. In this gloomy scenario surrounding girl child, very less percentage
of girls attend schools. Approximately, 70% of girls between the age of 6 and 10 years attend school as
compared to 76% among boys. In upper primary classes, the level of girls drops down to 40% and then
much more in secondary levels. Since it is considered less important to educate and empower girl child,
it is no big surprise that 54% of females remain illiterate as compared to 76% of males. In recent years,
the government has developed free education program for single girl child in order to discourage
multiple child birth. Government has also developed schemes which provide free education to families
with two girls and even scholarships for their higher education for the purpose of empowering girl child.
These schemes help in modifying the thinking pattern of families but it is important that these schemes
are well understood and explained to people so that the main motto of developing such schemes can be
achieved. Do you know that there are number of government schemes though thought and planned
properly but failed miserably at execution level? This happens due to the lack of clarity of policies
among grass-root-level officers which makes them unable to clearly explain the right purpose of
schemes to people and eventually the whole idea of developing such schemes get lost somewhere.