This study tries to assess through a field based study whether, to what extent, and in what ways the cumulative impact of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) interventions has been able to advance girls education and gender equality outcomes in selected contexts.

This paper explores poverty and gender analysis in the hill state of Uttarakhand from the perspective of mountain specificities that are interrelated and have direct bearing on the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of the mountain life.

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

The drive for a rapid development in the education of women came largely from a perception summed up aptly in .the following statement by Mayhew: "women