Live_For_The_Nation

I work for an NGO called SNEH Foundation so like every saturday it was a day of doing survey in underprivileged areas around Pune but it turn out to be different and an eye opener. My fellow snehi Dheeraj mailed me the details collected at one of the area of Pune about the kids not going to school and more than 6 years of age. He along with 2-3 new volunteers conducted this survey in a big locality and we came across a bitter truth that we never have imagined. Majority of the adolescent girls have quit their education, dropped from school, subjected to live a idle life just waiting to get married and the reasons given by their families were nothing short of an orthodox mindset of majority of Indian families. Most of these girls have done till 7th or 8th and then stopped going to school, reason is that it is not safe to send girls to coeducation school after they turn 13-14 years of age and unfortunately the girl's only school is rare these days. So it is better that they sti...