To begin with, the slogan ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao,’ which is translated as – Save the girl child, educate the girl child, is a campaign of the Government of India that works toward the spawning of awareness and also to enhance the efficiency of welfare services deliberated for girls in India. The campaign was first set in motion in 2015 at Panipat, Haryana, with initial funding of ₹100 crores. It mainly targeted the congregates in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Bihar, and Delhi.
Reasons for the initiation of the Beti Bachao, beti padhao campaign
Indeed, in India, female foeticide has led to a sharp unhand in the ratio of girls born as opposed to boy infants born in some states in India. Ultrasound technology has made it conceivable for pregnant women and their families to learn the sex of a fetus early in a pregnancy. Discrimination against girl newborns, for several reasons, has resulted in a rise in reckless termination of fetuses identified as female during the vital ultrasonic testing process.
This tendency was first noticed when the results of the 1991 national census were made public and were established to be an aggravating problem when the results of the 2001 National census were announced. The depletion in the female population of certain Indian states continues to exacerbate, corresponding to the results of 2011 that the National census showed. It has been observed that the trend is the most distinct relatively prosperous domain of India.
Effectiveness of the Beti Bachao, beti padhao campaign
According to the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, only ₹ five crores of a total of ₹43 crores allocated for the scheme in 2016-2017 was properly used.
Furthermore, according to experts, the scheme’s little success is due to the Government’s impotence to release funds expeditiously and its rather irregular focus on publicity rather than fabricating initiatives in the Health and Education sectors.
