Write a short note on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao?

• Beti Bachao Beti padhao was a scheme introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

• It is a collaborative scheme by the Ministry of women and child development, Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

• Its aim is to save the girl child and educate them all over the country.

• It was inaugurated in Panipat on 22nd of January, 2015.

• It was initiated in Haryana due to the very low female sex ratio-775/1000.

• It was later applied in a hundred districts all over the country.

Aims of the scheme:

This scheme has a three-fold aim:

• Women and child development

• Human resource development

• Health, and Family Welfare.

Reasons for initiating the scheme:

• The child sex ratio census data for 0 to 6 years was 933 girls per 1000 boys in 2001.

• It was later reduced to 918 girls for every 1000 boys in 2011.

• According to UNICEF data in 2012, India ranked 41 amongst 195 countries in this term.

• The abortion of female foeticide led to discrimination against girl infants.

Difficulties in implementation of the scheme:

• The orthodox mindset of the people that have continued to remain the same even after the spread of awareness through numerous campaigns.

• The government machinery has not been able to take the women's atrocities seriously.

• The lack of civic body support to achieve the objectives of the scheme.

• The dowry system, social abuses, domestic violence, and child marriage.