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Synopsis This work is unique in one respect that it focuses only on one aspect of education-female education and that to at one level-primary education. In this world, where talks of promotion of education involves expenditure of crores of rupees, a large number of girls are deprived of the facility of education at its base level, even though it may be available free of cost, due to one single factor-gender bias. There are other factors to boot-socio-economic angle, domestic duties, looking after the siblings and the like. The book brings out in detail the benefits of education for girls to the society, finance angle in providing free and compulsory education, gender disparities, efforts towards achieving the gender parity, efforts at international level etc. The book focuses on overall benefits of girls' education in various directions-social, economical, political and cultural. In can be an important tool of references for the education, policy-planners, NGOs and other concerned with women's development.