A Probe into the Effect of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) Scheme as a Catalyst to Life Satisfaction of the Female Learners

Life satisfaction is subjective wellbeing and contentment with one’s own life in general. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) hostels cover hard to reach girls especially the deprived ones belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC community and minority groups; these hostels actually act as extrinsic intervention. The present study was designed to compare the life satisfaction between the female students of the beneficiary of the scheme and their non-beneficiary counterpart – this actually proved in turn the effectiveness of the scheme. In this descriptive survey within ex-post-facto research design data were collected by administering Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) on randomly selected two groups – Study Group (KGBV) and Reference Group; the number of participants in the two groups was 200 and 247 respectively. It was observed that the two groups did not differ (statistically) significantly in almost all domains of life satisfaction. Though the female learners of the KGBV group had come from the deprived section yet they became as satisfied in life as the reference group. This fact may reflect the positive impact of the KGBV scheme in development of life satisfaction of the KGBV hostel dwellers.