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The "Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals," established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation on 25 September 2015, outlines a series of international objectives aimed at promoting gender equality. The Sustainable Development Goals of 2015 highlighted the issues of gender inequality and the disparities in access to resources, participation, opportunities, the exercise of rights, and access to positions of power, among other factors. Education is identified as one of the critical areas that can significantly advance gender equality. Kofi Annan, the 7th UN Secretary-General and a strong advocate for human rights, aptly stated, "Study after study has taught us that there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women". Hence, female education, which is regarded by the world over as a benchmark to measure the progress of a community, is still progressing gradually or developing incrementally in India. This work seeks to summarise the history of the institutionalisation of female education in India. It examines the major provisions enumerated on female education in the National Policy on Education 1986, 1992 and 2020. This paper has undertaken a significant study of the education policies and strategies adopted in the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 2015. The study analyses the extent to which the National Education Policy, 2020 incorporates the Sustainable Development Goals and how far it contributes to fostering female education in India.