Going to School in India: Uttarakhand

An Indian mother makes her children ready for their school at Beef Village in the hills of Uttarakhand. The department of education in Uttarakhand is basically a vast structure which incorporates within its fold primary education, secondary education and the state council of educational research and training. Uttarakhand Sabhi Ke Liye Shiksha Parishad has also been put in place to implement education for all in the state which boasts of a very high literacy rate, much higher than the national average. The government has introduced necessary steps to make the children school-bound and also to attract the drop-outs back to their schools. The Uttarakhand board of schools and examinations functions under the aegis of the Directorate of School Education and provides wide employment opportunities within the state. Uttarakhand contains some of the premier institutes of education in the country, headed by the famous Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee. To encourage the spread of education at Uttarakhand, the government is ensuring that poor but brilliant students in its rural areas receive free and first rate education at the Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya residential schools. Mid-day meals and co-curricular activities are some of the ways that have been introduced to popularize education in the state. Beef is small village located in Rajgarhi Tehsil of Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand with total 100 families residing. The Beef village has population of 476 of which 230 are males while 246 are females as per Population Census 2011. In Beef village population of children with age 0-6 is 86 which makes up 18.07 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Beef village is 1070 which is higher than Uttarakhand state average of 963. Child Sex Ratio for the Beef as per census is 1457, higher than Uttarakhand average of 890. Beef village has higher literacy rate compared to Uttarakhand. In 2011, literacy rate of Beef village was 80.26 % compared to 78.82 % of Uttarakhand. In Beef Male literacy stands at 92.82 % while female literacy rate was 67.69 %. As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Beef village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Source : Maps of India This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at [email protected] and [email protected]