According to a survey, 78% of parents in rural India want their daughters to at least graduate

According to a poll report, at least 78% of parents in rural India want to send their daughters to college and beyond.

Tuesday night, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan presented the “State of Elementary Education in Rural India-2022” report, which was based on a survey of 6,229 rural families from 20 different states.

 

The results show that parents’ preferences for their male and female children to pursue further education, including technical degrees, graduation, and postgraduate degrees, are comparable when taking into account the gender distribution of the children. Parents of 82% of boys and 78% of girls prefer to send their kids to school until they graduate, the study found.

 

According to the poll, around one-fourth of all children who dropped out of school during elementary school were male youngsters.

 

Comparatively, the dropout rate for female children at that age was greater and reached 35%. Boys and girls were more likely than females to stop attending school after finishing elementary school (65% of girls and 75% of boys).

 

After finishing the elementary sections, these youngsters may have dropped out since there were no schools with higher sections in their hamlet or surrounding communities, it said.

 

The Development Intelligence Unit (DIU), a project of the Transforming Rural India Foundation (TRIF) and Sambodhi Pvt, carried out the study, which concentrated on children aged six to sixteen in rural communities, with the aim of presenting data along with the appropriate analytics and insights to stimulate action among stakeholders in the development of rural India.

 

According to the report, 62.5 percent of children are under their mothers’ supervision for their academics, compared to 49 percent under their dads’.

 

“This emphasizes the crucial role parents play in directing and encouraging their kids’ academic endeavors at home. Additionally, to further improve their children’s education, more than 38% of parents choose private tutors. It is well knowledge that adults other than the children’s parents supervise youngsters in rural India.

 

For instance, 25.6% of the children are taught by an older sibling, 3.8% are watched after by anganwadi staff, and 7.6% are instructed by community instructors.

 

Comparatively, 50% of these kids are watched over by their dads, while 64% of these kids are watched over by their moms. According to the survey, 26% of youngsters study under the guidance of a private tutor.

 

The poll looked at how much time kids spend using their smartphones.

 

“On average, 73% of kids use their cellphones for less than two hours every day. Notably, older kids tend to spend more time on their phones: 25.4% of kids in grades 8 and above dedicate two to four hours, compared to 16.8% of kids in grades 1 to 3, the report said.