Government Plan Programme Policies for UPSC Exam: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Government Plan Programme Policies for UPSC Exam

:: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao ::

Government has recently launched Beti bachao Beti padhao yojana for survival, protection & education of the girl child. It aims 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. Haryana has the worst sex ratio among all states in the country standing at 879. Looking into this Government launched the scheme from panipat district of Haryana. The Scheme will have focussed intervention & multi-sectoral action in 100 districts with low Child Sex Ratio. It is a joint initiative of Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Human Resource Development. Focus points of the scheme are:

• 100 districts with low sex ratio will be selected and atleast one district in every state.
• In 100 critical districts, improve sex ratio by 10 points in a year.
• Prevention of gender based sex selective abortion by strengthening the PC & PNDT Act with stringent punishments for violations of the law.
• Appropriate initiatives which will encourage girls to express their views and to be heard and participate effectively.
• Reduce gender difference in under-5 child mortality by 4 points by 2017.
• Increase girls enrolment in secondary schools to 79% by 2017.
• Fifty new Kasturba Gandhi bal vidhyalay by 2015.
• Monitoring of this policy will be at three levels. At the central level monitoring would be done by secretary, MWCD by a task force. At state level monitoring task force will be headed by state secretary and finally at the district level monitoring will be done through district action plan.

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