• Shiv Prasad Thakur

In present time, women empowerment is a topic of discussion, especially in backward and progressive countries because they came to know much later that without women promotion and empowerment, the country's progress is not possible. In fact, empowerment is a mental state dependent on internal and external conditions. For this, fearlessness, economic self-reliance, decision making, and proper education is an essential condition to make them eligible for all. Accessibility and strength are the real hallmarks of women empowerment. The process of empowerment brings so much awareness in the woman that she gets control over social and economic resources through education and by directing her life herself and increasing her participation in decisions at home and outside. After the independence our government formulated many educational schemes regarding women's education which solely aims their empowerment. Women make up 50 percent of the world's population, so they have the right to be treated as men in every sphere of life. The importance of this is underlined by the fact that 'Empowerment of Women' has been included as a major goal in the Eighth Millennium Development Goals. The present paper deals with educational policies and programmes for women empowerment in India.

Women empowerment, Education, Female education, Educational policies, Development.

"WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.1088-1091, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805920.pdf

"WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp1088-1091, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805920.pdf