new delhi the government launched a nationwide campaign on the eve of the international womens day to bring outofschool girls back into the education system by rolling out a convegence model that will begin by ensuring enrolment of an estimated four lakh outofschool adolescent girls in the 1114 years age groupthe campaign kanya shiksha pravesh utsav is being steered by the ministry of women and child development in partnership with the ministry of education highlighting the governments focus on convergence and coordination between ministries departments and states wcd minister smriti irani said that she was certain that by may all the four lakh outofschool girls will be brought into the fold of education data on outofschool girls are based on their visits to anganwadi centres for nutrition nutrition education and skilling at the launch unicef india also cited findings of a u report india based on inputs from a realtime data collection and communication platform for youth and communities drawing from responses of 50000 children and adolescents in 28 states the report highlights that nearly onethird of the respondents know a girl who has dropped out of school among the dropouts a significant number were either engaged in domestic work or had got married a third of them wish to go back to school on solutions the respondents sought focus on convincing parents measures for safety in school and during commute and awareness about government schemes wcd secretary indevar pandey said the campaign will be largely driven by the anganwadi system in close partnerships with education officers at district and block levels the anganwadis will do a mapping of existing outofschool girlsthe wcd secretary also said that the need for the shift has also arisen because the scheme for adolescent girls sag which initially took care of outofschool girls was getting less and less traction mainly because of the success of the education system in bringing all these girls in the 11 to 14 age group into the formal school system