Keywords : Rural, Urban, Tribal, Academic achievement, Girls, KGBV, Residential school

Abstract : Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) are residential schools for the girls predominantly from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Backward Castes (BC) and other minorities in difficult areas. These institutions are set up in Educationally Backward Blocks that are less in female literacy and having more gender gap in literacy rate as compared to national level average. This research paper is about the disparities in the academic achievement of the rural, urban and tribal KGBV students in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The research led to the finding that rural students’ academic achievement is better that that of urban and tribal students. Because KGBVs have similar administrative and academic environments in all three sectors, the diversity in the scores of the girls from these Vidyalayas must be taken into account

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