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Cover Story EW GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2023-24

INDIA’S BEST GIRLS

BOARDING SCHOOLS

female labour participation ratio
(FLPR) in the workforce at 29.4 per-
cent is way below the global average,
and suffers in comparison with most
Asian countries such as China and
Singapore. This is one of the major
reasons why the Indian economy has
failed to record annual GDP growth
rates achieved by neighbouring
People’s Republic of China and most
South-east Asian countries.
Therefore educating girl children
should be a high national priority.
And the country’s top girls board-
ing schools equipped with excellent
academic, co-curricular activities
and sports infrastructure, do it best.
It’s pertinent to note that the total
score awarded to top-ranked girls’
boarding schools in EWISR 2023-
24 is substantially higher than of
Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya’s Nishi Misra: modernisation investment top-ranked boys and co-ed boarding
schools.
Educating girl children should be a high national priority. Against this promising backdrop,
And the country’s girls boarding schools do it best. It’s there are very minor changes at the
top of the girls boarding schools
pertinent to note that the total score awarded to top-ranked league table of 2023-34. Scindia
girls’ boarding schools in EWISR 2023-24 is higher than of Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, which
top-ranked boys and co-ed boarding schools experienced a major infra makeover
last year, retains its #1 rank and
although it is obliged to share it with
Welham Girls, Dehradun, it has
lthough the globally ments and provide them secular high been awarded a #1+ rank for extraor-
multiplying woke brigade quality education supplemented with dinary achievement in the year past
is unlikely to approve of excellent co-curricular, life skills which puts it a nose ahead.
Agender segregated girls and sports education that empowers Other girls boarding schools in
schools, in multi-lingual and multi- them to blossom into competitive, the Top 5 table are Ecole Globale
cultural India which prides itself on confident career professionals and International, Dehradun pro-
‘unity in diversity’, all-girls schools often, entrepreneurs. moted to #2 (from #3 in 2022-23);
serve a very useful social purpose. This is why right from the start Mayo College for Girls, Ajmer
They enable girl children who would when the sui generis Education- #3 (3) jointly with Unison Girls,
otherwise be denied primary-sec- World India School Rankings Dehradun (7); Birla Balika
ondary education for socio-cultural (EWISR) were introduced in 2007, Vidyapeeth, Pilani #4 (5) jointly
or religious reasons, to avail it. Girls gender segregated girls day and es- with Hopetown Girls, Dehradun
boarding schools play a specially pecially boarding schools have been (4) and Vidyadevi Jindal School,
important role inasmuch as they accorded high importance in the Hisar #5 (6).
transform girl children from conser- annual EWISR. According to the Pe- Further down, the Heritage
vative or ultra-liberal home environ- riodic Labour Force Survey, India’s Girls School, Udaipur ranked #6

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