Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2019)

Author(s):
Jyoti Rajvi, Neena Sareen and Divya Rajpurohit

Abstract:
The study was conducted in Bikaner district. Studies have shown that Bikaner district of Rajasthan is one of the backward desert districts in terms of female education (27.03%) and female health facilities. The marriage age of girls in the district is around 15 years and female by the age of 19-20 years become mother of 3-4 children. The status of women and adolescent girls is miserable. They suffer from anemia and malnutrition. So there is a need to educate the adolescent girls in the district to improve their health status. List of villages having senior secondary Co-education and girl’s government schools will be prepared from selected panchayat samities as our respondents are adolescent girls. Two villages from each panchayat samiti will be selected randomly. List of school going and nonschool going adolescent girls of 11-17 years will be procured from school and anganwadi centers /gram panchayat. Fifty girls from each village will be selected randomly having 25 school going and 25 non-school going girls thus comparing the sample of 400 girls.