hindu-muslim population in murshidabad district
A Comparative Study of Literacy Pattern of Muslim and Hindu Population in Murshidabad District, West Bengal.Abstract :Education is the basic empowerment tools of the society. Infrastructural development of the schools and Madrasah are getting maximum priority under the financial assistance from different schemes. But the quality of education in the different Govt. aidded schools are degraded and on the other hand Private schools and Private tution are getting priority in the society. As a result Murshidabad District, a Muslim affected district is going to divide in high and low level of literacy particularly in Muslims and Hindus.
Keywords :Education, Quality of Education, Muslim-Hindu Literacy Pattern, Level of Development, Scholarships Scheme.Introduction :Education is the basic means to eradicate the traditional inequalities and to empower the poor as well as society. As per the norms of UNDP, the main goal is to achieve universal primary education by 2015. In the first stage of formal education, primary education (class I-IV) bears the responsibility for upgrading the children with the basic knowledge of reading, writing, general mathematics and Science. In other word the spread of primary education helps to overcome the traditional inequalities of caste, class and gender. The aim of elementary education is to empower poor, marginalized women and men and to educate the caste divide system.
Central Govt. as well as State Govt. has launched various programmes such as Mid Day Meal(MDM), Sarva Shikha Mission(SSM), Sishu Shikha Karmasuchi(SSK), District Primary Education Programme(DPEP), Integrated Child Development Scheme(ICDS) and such as Right to Education Act- The Right of children to free and compulsory education by the parliament on 4th August,2009. This came into force on 01th April,2010 and National Educationally Backward Minority in 1993.
Although the present world has taken much more attention in achieving the equality of power between men and women
Keywords :Education, Quality of Education, Muslim-Hindu Literacy Pattern, Level of Development, Scholarships Scheme.Introduction :Education is the basic means to eradicate the traditional inequalities and to empower the poor as well as society. As per the norms of UNDP, the main goal is to achieve universal primary education by 2015. In the first stage of formal education, primary education (class I-IV) bears the responsibility for upgrading the children with the basic knowledge of reading, writing, general mathematics and Science. In other word the spread of primary education helps to overcome the traditional inequalities of caste, class and gender. The aim of elementary education is to empower poor, marginalized women and men and to educate the caste divide system.
Central Govt. as well as State Govt. has launched various programmes such as Mid Day Meal(MDM), Sarva Shikha Mission(SSM), Sishu Shikha Karmasuchi(SSK), District Primary Education Programme(DPEP), Integrated Child Development Scheme(ICDS) and such as Right to Education Act- The Right of children to free and compulsory education by the parliament on 4th August,2009. This came into force on 01th April,2010 and National Educationally Backward Minority in 1993.
Although the present world has taken much more attention in achieving the equality of power between men and women
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