Non-availability of female teachers, absence of safe drinking water, poor maintenance of sanitation facilities and low awareness is what keeps the young girls in the educationally backward and Muslim-dominated Mewat district of Haryana away from schools, a recently conducted study commissioned as part of the National Women Empowerment Mission, under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, has found.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/lack-teachers-sanitation-keeps-girls-away-schools-report
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/bindu-shajan-perappadan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mewat
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drinking-water
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-women-and-child-development
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toilets
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-human-resource-development
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/haryana