A Study on Policy Implication and Gender in Households - Gaps and Promises in Primary Education of Rural West Bengal

Abstract

A society is a form of living in which humans do reside with several facts and points. Those are making the societies much perfect in its establishment. The facets of the presences make a society much furnished and completed with its different parts and parcels. Some of them are very much positive and some of them are negatives as well. In this way the societies are composed with some of the phenomenon which can be called as evils or the darks. In this way those are making the social connections weak and feeble towards going to the development. In this junction it has to be emphasized upon the conditions with which the society can heal itself. It is said that education is the panacea of all social evils. Henceforth it is very important to note that the education can have that much potentiality which can be expected to see if the society is improving. In this dimension gender may become a vital point to check with. The gender division is quite historical and it is continuing to keep its reflection in the sphere of education in today’s scenario. In West Bengal the literacy rate for the males is 81.69 per cent when the same for the females is 70.54 per cent. It is a clear indication that for the rural development paradigm in the line of approach in West Bengal is not at all doing any good. The rural people are not still able to help their children to achieve the best effect of going to schools. It may be a positivistic aspect of the education to see how the students are becoming differentiated just based upon their gender identity. The 86^th Constitutional amendment in 2002 has assured the universalization of education irrespective of gender for the age group which is 6 to 14. Yet the perfect result has not come as accords to the different previously done works. Gender is becoming such an incident which cannot be ever changed from the perception of the society. People still believe that women should get less chance to learn than men because they have to in home for the household jobs. In this way the overall developments of the villages have gone hampered and the people are becoming ignorant enough to help both the genders equally. Even in the schools the genders are not equally understood and a deep biasness can be possible to see. This study has considered data from Purulia, Bankura and Birbhum districts where the rural students are purposively present in regards to this specific study. This study has tried to understand how the passage for universalizing of education is working with them. The students should get equal benefit of the different policies like the Operation Blackboard but unfortunately the situation is different and the female students are still not accessing the complete privilege of the primary education. Now is the time to check their lives and suggest some exit points from their grass root level living for making the optimum use of the governmental educational efforts to improve in an holistic type.