Beginning from December 31, 2021, when the Government Girls PU College, Udupi imposed an arbitrary restriction on girls wearing the hijab

The present paper estimates the drivers of education spending of households across economic groups.

Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.

Education is a basic human right; and it plays a significant role in the development of a human being, a society, a community and a country.

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.

The paper focuses on analyzing the education landscape through gender lens to map the significant changes and lessons learnt both at the policy and practice levels.

Literacy, together with non-domestic employment, which gave women access to independent sources of income, have been regarded as important indicators of women’s ‘status’, which affected fertility and mortality outcomes.

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