abstract

Introduction: This paper focusing on the Kanyashree Programme in West Bengal reveals that the intervention is a conditional cash transfer programme that seeks to raise female literacy and postpone their marriage ages from lower socio-economic families, in order to reduce gender disparities and empower the girl child.

Objectives: The aims are to focus on learning about enrollment and rates of continuation, average age of marrying, health and nutritional status, and speed in increase of income, gender roles and norms, and the efficiency in implementing the program.

Methodology: The specific method adopted in the research is to follow a quota sampling technique of 300 undergraduate female beneficiaries, and employ questionnaires, interviews and program files as instruments for data collection and use t-tests and chi-square tests in analyzing quantitative data.

Conclusion: Recommendations for future research since more evaluation is needed to reveal the effectiveness of this program in the long run and how some challenges can be addressed, as well as modifying the program policy to make it easily accessible for all. All in all, Kanyashree Prakalpa is established as an essential programme in the pursuite of gender equality and social emancipation of adolescent girls in West Bengal and a key to the gender sensitive and equitable West Bengal.