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India is still far from achieving gender equality and its skewed sex ratio of 940 females per 1000 males.The importance of girl child education is known by almost everyone.A girl child is an easy target and is usually at the receiving end of abuse and domestic violence. Extreme taboos, lack of affordable sanitary napkins, lack of decent functioning toilets, and inadequate school infrastructure are some of the reasons that stop girls from going to school. According to the 2001 Census, the rate of literacy of males is 75.3% while the literacy rate of female is 53.7%.All these issues have been covered under six chapters of the book.