Several government schemes have helped increase the Percentage of girl children inBiharattending school from 56.9% inNational Family Healthsurvey-4 (NFHS-4) to 61.1% in NFHS-5. However, the percentage of Women with ten or more years of schooling remains low as the state Average in this category is 28.8%. This means that even if the girls go to school, majority of them do not study for even ten years.
Also, in almost all the social parameters, females are lagging behind males. When it comes to urban and rural divide, the condition of females is worse in the rural areas.
In ten or more years of schooling, while 28.8% of females had attended school for ten or more years compared to 42.8% males in the state. Countrywide data shows that 41% of females had attended ten or more years of schooling compared to 50.2% men.