• Mosira Parvin

ABSRACT Kanyashree Prakalpa is an innovative project of the government of West Bengal. Kanyashree Prakalpa is a conditional direct cash transfer scheme for young girls of lower income families most at-risk for dropping out of school and for child marriage adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18. The effectiveness of the Prakalpa immediately appears just after the implementation of Kanyashree Prakalpa-2013 across the state. The districts do not have uniformity in effectiveness. The districts have been compared over the years on their effectiveness. So the researcher has motivated to find out the impact of Kanyashree Prakalpa.The main objectives of the study is to find out whether the Kanyashree Prakalpa has any effect on school-going girls of Chapra Block in Nadia District in West Bengal. Both primary and secondary data have been used for this study. It is found that Kanyashree Prakalpa not only minimizes the tendency of girl students to drop out from schools at early age, at the same time it will make a positive impact on the prevention of early marriage of girl child.

KEYWORDS: Kanyashree Prakalpa, Enrolment, Drop-Out, Child Marriage

"IMPACT OF KANYASHREE PRAKALPA ON SCHOOL GOING GIRLS: A CASE STUDY OF CHAPRA BLOCK IN NADIA DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.458-462, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807788.pdf

"IMPACT OF KANYASHREE PRAKALPA ON SCHOOL GOING GIRLS: A CASE STUDY OF CHAPRA BLOCK IN NADIA DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp458-462, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807788.pdf