Education is one of the most important drivers of India's social and economic development. Higher levels of literacy lead to greater economic output, higher employment levels, better health, better social structures, and higher marks along a number of other development indicators.
More specifically, the impact of educating girls and women has been shown to result in rapid improvements in family planning, nutrition, health, and income and is seen as one of the best tools for promoting social and economic development.Although literacy rate of the state is 72.2 % according to census 2001, which is satisfactory comparison to national literacy rate but there is need to great approach in the community about education especially in the rural girls. In the districtPauriGarhwal, there are 474 senior basic schools, 257 higher secondary schools and 1791 junior basic schools out of which mostly are in rural areas.We feel educated person does some thing better for himself, his family and his society if society get benefited the nation would get benefited automatically.
The education is not only need of every person but it is also right of every children. Education for all continues to be acute problem in India despite the fact that government targets were education for all by 2000.An estimated facts are as below, 33% of children above age of 7 are illiterate, 42 million are not able to get access to basic education.
And 100 million children are out of the school. The plight of girls remains considerably worse then the boys. Drop out rates are increased in recent Years, according to the recent statistics, over 40% of the children in class 1to 4 dropped in 1999-2000 compared to 38% in 1997-1998.