The Centre plans to start as many as five residential schools in every state to cater to Dalit girls, but on the condition that states take over their funding and functioning after three years.
The schools will provide education from Class VI to Class XII. Boarding schools are seen as the best way to draw children, especially girls, in remote places.
The facilities for lodging and food besides schooling expenses incentivises education among the poor whose living conditions divert young girls towards household chores.
Read more of this in a report by Subodh Ghildiyall published in Times of India....
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