Girls Out of School - The Faces Behind The Stark Numbers on School Dropouts
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This time around marks a year to the deadly second wave of Covid. While\\xa0 officially 5.42 lakh people lost their lives to the virus in India since 2020, there have been many repercussions of the pandemic.
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This episode of The Big Story is not going to be about the headline making news, it\'s going to be about an issue which is very close to us here at The Quint.
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Two years since the onset of Covid, India\'s schools have almost re-opened, but millions of underprivileged students aren\'t going to be returning to schools anytime soon.
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We at The Quint, wanted to look into this long-term impact of Covid on girls\' education through our video series \\u2014 Ladki Hoon Padhna Chahti Hoon \\u2013 India\'s Girls Out of School.
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\\nIf you look at the data, according to UNESCO, almost 1.8 billion students globally have been affected by school closures in the pandemic. Around 320 million of them are in India alone, and out of this at least 158 million are female students.
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\\nIf you look at the data, according to UNESCO, almost 1.8 billion students globally have been affected by school closures in the pandemic. Around 320 million of them are in India alone, and out of this at least 158 million are female students.
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And it\'s not just this UNESCO data alone. Ever since India started relying on digital classes for school students from 2020, there have been several parallel surveys and analysis to shed light on who have been impacted the most by the school closures during Covid and how. Most of these surveys and data point to the one fact that girls especially from caste and economic minorities became the bigger casualties of the pandemic.
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So we decided to go to the faces behind these numbers and meet the girls whose dreams have been shattered and who childhoods have been lost. Tune in to The Big Story!
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\\nHost and Producer: Shorbori Purkayastha
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\\nHost and Producer: Shorbori Purkayastha
\\nEditor: Shelly Walia
\\nInterviews: Sadhika Tiwari and Mythreyee Ramesh
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\\nMusic: Big Bang Fuzz
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