In addition, women also face discrimination in term of religion and caste; the caste women are doubly disadvantaged, both within their family and in society. Specifically, the women representatives coming from Scheduled Castes rarely express their views in panchayat meetings and only, in certain cases, the middle caste women perform slightly better than the scheduled caste women in their panchayat meetings. As we can see the education level in India, women literacy is very low. The female literacy rate is much below than the national average in some of the northern states. The government of India came up with different programs and implemented for women development, but still, a lot is needed to be accomplished for their development.