Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

             

                  

  

• Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) aims to ensure survival, protection & education of the girl child.
• It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2015 at Panipat, Haryana. 
• Incidentally, it was launched in Haryana which has the worst Sex Ratio and Child Sex Ratio in the country. 
• The prime concern is to address the issue of declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR) through a mass campaign across the country targeted at changing societal mindsets & creating awareness about the criticality of the issue. 
• The Scheme will have focussed intervention & multi-sectoral action in 100 districts with low Child Sex Ratio.

Criteria for selection of 100 districts under the programme:

  

It is a joint initiative of three ministries

    

Objectives

    

1. Prevention of Gender biased sex selective discrimination

To achieve this, steps are being taken to strengthen the implementation of Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PCPNDT Act) with stringent punishments for violations of the law.

2. Ensuring survival and protection of girl child

Implementation of various legislative provisions for the protection of the girl child and women are to be ensured to create a safe environment for the girl child.

3. Ensuring education and participation of girl child:

Right to Education Act, 2010 provides children the right to free and compulsory education till completion of elementary education.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is a flagship programme for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education in a time bound manner.

Effective implementation of these provisions will help in ensuring education to girl child.

Targets:

Other important points:

• Ministry of Women and Child Development is responsible for budgetary control and administration of the scheme from the centre.
• Child Sex Ratio has been constantly declining since 1961. It was 927 in 2001 and fell down to 918 in 2011.
• The Logo for the project was designed through crowd sourcing. Raghavendra from Hyderabad was the winner among over 3100 en