Mahila Samakhya (Education for Women’s Equality) (11th Plan Document)

Abstract

The programme is at present being implemented in 21707 villages in 83 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Assam and Jharkhand. During the 11th Plan expansion would be done in 58 –60 new districts, in identified educationally backward blocks. An educationally backward block would be a block with rural female literacy rate lower than 30%. Among these blocks, the expansion of the MS programme should be prioritized in areas with concentration of Tribal, SC and Minority population. Lists of blocks below 30% rural female literacy and with more than 20% population of tribals/SC/minority/OBC be drawn up by State MS programmes based on 2001 Census data, for purposes of expansion of the programme.