Scholarships for girls

Girl children are having it good these days.Recently Central board of secondary education has come out with an announcement to make education free for girl children from 6th to 12th standard.But the catch is, not every girl child is eligible for this scholarship. A girl child who is the only child of her parents is eligible for this freeship.
Laudable; But immediately principals of cbse schools have come out with vehement opposition to this scheme.They want various clauses, ifs and buts in the scheme.They have even given a veiled threat that they may have necessarily to convert their schools into state board or matriculation pattern as otherwise it will be a financially non viable proposition to run these schools.
But what was missing was brought out by a reader. He says while it is a good move to foster the need for girls to be educated,what is more urgent is the plight of girl children in larger families. It is such families which are not able to afford to educate all children and invariably girl children get a short shift.
While the recent pronouncement addresses the issue of girl children at the fundamental level and foresses a future scenario, the latter addresses the current need of such families and their girl children.
India is such a vast country with many social structures and belief systems, we will get enough sample for any theory of hypothesis!
There is an alarming adverse sex ratio that shows no sign of abating;It is established without a trace of doubt that educated mothers facilitate sure fire social and economic changes which are desirable.Any attempt to educate girls upto high school, be it from small or large families, is most welcome.