Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) is under the ages of Tawang District Youth welfare society since 2019-2020, chaired by Miss Sonam Nordzin, Scheme was launched by Government of India to make the education system more responsive to the needs of marginalised girls and to enhance their access and retention and to bring back the drop out girls to school to complete their education.
Under the scheme, residential schools for girls at upper primary levels (VI to VIII) were set up in the Educationally Backward Block (EBB), towns and minority concentrated areas all over the country. The scheme provides upper primary level education for girls who are either drop out or never enrolled in the age group of 10-14 years belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Minority communities and children of families of Below Poverty Line (BPL). The Schools have been very successful for the Girls education and they have started to compete with any other good schools in providing all round development to the Girls child in remote areas with residential facilities.