Prayagraj: Efforts to promote women education eventually bore fruit in Uttar Pradesh.
If the latest data of the state’s higher education department is anything to go by, the girls and women enrolled in state universities and colleges affiliated to them in the state outnumber the men and boys by quite a margin.
The number of women registering for higher education has shot up by 13 per cent in the last four years, the officials said.
According to the UP Higher Education Directorate’s report that was sent to the state government revealed that 27 state universities and 7391 degree colleges of the state have a total of 50,21,277 students enrolled in them in the 2020-21 session. Of which 62.95 per cent are women. The count of men is 18,60,220 (37 per cent), added the officials.
Four summers ago — in the academic session 2017-18 — a total of 55,74,638 students registered in UP’s higher educational institutions. As many as 27,77,137 were women amounting to 49.81 per cent as compared to 27,97,501 (50.18 per cent) men, revealed the officials.
“Earlier, many parents were prompted to invest in boys’ education believing that they would support the home and be a pillar of strength during old age but with time and awareness, the realisation has finally sunk in that educated girls can not only be good professionals and support homes, but also lead a confident life of self-respect,” Director (higher education) Amit Bharadwaj was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
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