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India is going to have the largest number of youth in the world by 2020 and it is a great demographic advantage over other developing countries. The current demographic dividend of India can only be fully realized if this large number of youth can be utilized as productive work force with high value skilled output, rather than unskilled / low value output [23][24]. To materialise this dream each state of India is to be uplifted enough so that the GER of every state benchmarks the global GER. In our study the female students of West Bengal are targeted as the GER of female students in this state is exceptionally poor as compared with the national GER[9]. Identification of the reasons of large scale drop outs of female students in West Bengal is done along with the possible way outs to bring these dropouts back to the classrooms or alternative streams of education were pulled up. In this paper the key reasons of poor GER of female students are identified through hierarchical clustering technique. And an e-Learning based model is established with the objective to offer a plausible way out over the identified reasons. The model will be effectual to the young female students of West Bengal for continuing their higher studies and that will gradually increase the GER as well.