Beti Bachao Beti Padhao : Government of India campaign.
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is a campaign initiated in 2015 by the Prime Minister of India. This campaign was launched to decrease the female infanticide cases in India and create increased educational opportunities for girls.
There are several reasons for the decreasing sex ratio in India. Gender discrimination is the foremost among all the reasons. Here in India, girls are equivalent to a burden. They are not the bearers of the family name and hence are just a burden on the father’s shoulders.
Though dowry is rendered illegal already, some form or the other of it exists in this society. Hence, the fathers of the girl child consider the birth of a girl to be a burden for the future.
There are several strategies that need to be included in the implementation of the project. The campaign is focused on the gender-critical states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, and Delhi. It is not known how effective the campaign is, but it is a very important one to revive the sex ratio and save the nation’s girl children.
