1. BECAUSE THEY ARE GIRLS.

 Indian society doesn’t consider girls

equal to boys which is why many a
families don’t send their daughters to
school.
 Poor Indian families when have to make
a choice who to send to the
AANGANWADI or the school, they give
first preference to the boys.
2. BECAUSE THE AANGANWADI’S ARE WAY
TOO FAR.
 Sometimes women of the house don’t
go out of their house to drop off their
children to the AANGANWADIS because
it is far away from their houses.
 INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT
SERVICES. (ICDS)
This is an Indian government welfare
program which provides food, preschool
education, and primary healthcare to
children under 6 years of age and their
mothers.
1. OVER CROWDED CLASSROOMS, ABSENT
TEACHERS AND UNSANITARY
CONDITIONS.
 The above mentioned poor facilities
lead parents to decide it is not worth
their child going to school.
2. BECAUSE THEY HAVE DISABILITIES.
 The barriers range from the practical
issues of transportation many children
have to walk to school.
 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)- is an
Indian government program aimed at
the universalisation of elementary
education in a time bound manner,
making free and compulsory education
to children between the ages of 6 to 14
a fundamental right.
 Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat- it is a
nationwide sub-program of SSA. Children
who fail to read in early education lag
behind in other subjects.
 The program is designed to improve
comprehensive early reading, writing
and early mathematics program for
children in classes 1 and 2.
1. POOR SANITATION FOR GIRLS.
 Many adolescents who are
menstruating don’t go to school
because of a lack of privacy,
unavailability of sanitary disposal
facilities and water shortages.
 They are also worried about sexual
advances from boys in mixed toilets.
2. CHILD MARRIAGE
 Girls below the age of 18 are married off
by their parents for various purposes such
as money, property, or shedding of a
responsibility.
3. CHILD LABOR
 Children pose as easy prey to the cruel
practice of cheap employment. They
work for lesser prices and more hours.
4. CHILD TRAFFICKING
 Children are kidnapped and exported
beyond the state boundaries for
purposes such as prostitution, cheap
labor etc.
 BALIKA MANDAL- special emphasis would
be laid to motivate and involve the
uneducated groups belonging to this age
group in non-formal education and
improvement and upgradation of home
based skills.
 To ban the child marriage, as per the Indian
constitution, girls below the age of 18 and
boys below the age of 21 are not to be
married. And if they are married, the
parents would be put behind bars.
 To ban child labor, as per the Indian
constitution, a fundamental right is
mentioned wherein the employment of
children below the age of 14 is
considered an offence punishable by
law.