Digital Gender Atlas for Advancing Girls’ Education in India

It was launched in 2018 to identify the low performing geographic pockets for girls, particularly from marginalized groups such as scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and Muslim minorities, on specific gender related education indicators.

• The Atlas is designed around the two broad areas of performance of girls’ education and vulnerabilities visualized in the following five sections:
  • Comparative Composite Index based Quartile Ranking grouped under categories of access, infrastructure, teachers and outcome indicators and based on 25 indicators pertaining to primary, upper primary and secondary level which can be visualized at State, district and block level.
  • Trend Analysis of the performance status of 25 individual indicators can be visualized at state, district and block levels over three years viz 2011-12, 2012-13 & 2013-14.
  • Spatial Distribution of Special Focus Districts like districts with 25% SC/ST/Minority population, special focus districts under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Left wing extremists districts etc.
  • Vulnerability status of an area based on a composite index of 3 broad indicators (i) rural female literacy (ii) percentage of girls/boys married below the legal age of marriage and (iii) working children can be visualized. Separate visualizations are given for working children for the following sub-indicators: disaggregation by gender and age for the 5-9 years, 10-14 years and 15-19 years age groups as well as for marriage below the legal age. These maps are available up to the district level.
  • Children with disabilities.
• All the states have been mapped and the states would use these maps to plan and come up with effective strategies to counter female literacy.
• Such targeted initiatives would help in bridging the gap between male and female literacy levels.