Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is an effective campaign to save the girl child and educate the girl child all over the India. It is a scheme run by the Government of India with the aim of spreading awareness as well as improving the efficiency of welfare services for the girls of India. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has started a Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (launched on 21st of January in 2015) under the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana was launched to support this scheme as well as make it successful by meeting the essential expenses of the girl child such as health, higher education and marriage.
This scheme is a good start for the girl child lives as it involves some effective efforts of the Government of India. It is a best scheme ever as it reduces the tension of parents as well as will save the lives of present and future born girls through this small investment on annual basis. This project was started with the initial amount of Rs. 100 crore. It is also reported that Ministry of Home Affairs will spent around Rs 150 crore over this scheme to assure women safety in large cities of India. This scheme has been planned and launched to reduce the level and effect of some dangerous social issues related to the girl child.
According to the census of 1991, the number of girl child (age group 0-6 years) in India was 945 per 1,000 boys. It was reduced to 927 girls/1,000 boys in 2001 and 918 girls/1,000 boys in 2011. Regarding this, India was ranked at 41st number country among 195 countries by the UNICEF in 2012. Such a huge level of decline in the number of girls was the indication of lack of women empowerment in the country. This huge reduction in girl child number was because of the pre-birth discrimination, gender biased sex selection, post birth gender inequality, crimes against women, etc social issues.
On the launch of this scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked to the public to eradicate female foeticide and follow the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme for the betterment of the girl child. This programme was launched by the PM on 22nd of January in 2015. It was first started from the Panipat, Haryana. The trend of ever declining child sex ratio in the country has given rise to the necessity of this programme. The objectives of this scheme are:
- To ensure the survival, protection and higher education of the girl child.
- To ensure empowerment of women through higher education and equal participation in all the working fields.
- To prevent gender biased sex selective elimination of girl child.
- To enhance the status of girl child all over India especially in the top 100 selected districts (low in CSR).
- To bring Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Women and Child Development, and Ministry of Human Resource Development together to work conjointly for the welfare of girl child.
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