Savitribai Phule placed "universal, child sensitive,
intellectually critical, and socially reforming education at the very
core of the agenda for all children in India" by setting up the first
school for girls in 1848 with eight students.
Classes being conducted at a Functional Literacy Centre in Purulia. There are 2,413 women learning the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic in 108 such centres across the district. (Credit: Pradan)
