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Enrolment pattern and Profile of Scheduled Caste Girl Students

Beena Yadav, Shailja Kumari, Rita Goel, Manju Dahiya
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v4.n2.p8
Abstract

Half of the scheduled caste (SC) girl students were in the age group of 16-18 years followed by 33.0 per cent who were above 18 years of  age and the age of remaining 17.0 per cent students was between 13-15 years. Maximum number of students were  Haijans  (34.0%) followed by dhanak (27.0%), balmiki (13.0%), odd (11.0%) and khatik (10.0%); and  majbhi sikh & bajigar caste respondents were less than five percent (3.0% and 2.0%, respectively). Majority of them were from  joint families (78.0 %) with family size between  6-8 members (71.0%) and  aspired to be graduate ( 52.0 %) and be in  teaching profession (37%).  Average number of siblings of the respondents was 2.48 wherein girls outnumbered boys. Illiteracy rate among their female sibling (6.9%)  was more than two times higher than male siblings (2.8 %). Their mothers were home makers (48.0%) and fathers were labour (53.0%) in maximum number of cases. Majority (69.0%) of the SC  girl students  were  from landless families.  

Keywords
Education, SC girls, enrolment, aspiration, sibling, parents
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