78% of Parents in Rural India Want To Educate Daughters Till Graduation: Survey

The survey was based on responses from 6,229 parents from 20 states.

At least 78 percent of parents in rural India want to educate their daughters till graduation, says a new survey. 82 percent of parents also want to send their sons to college. 

The survey, titled State of Elementary Education in Rural India — 2023, conducted by the Development Intelligence Unit, in a collaboration between NGO Transform Rural India and Sambodhi Research and Communications, based on responses from 6,229 parents from 20 states who had children between the ages of 6-16 years. Out of them:

• 6,135 had school-going students

• 56 had students who dropped out of school 

• 38 had children who had never enrolled in school