Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Why in the News?

Recently, the Ministry of Women & Child Development has issued guidelines to extend the Beti Bachao and Beti Padhao across the country.

Key Points:

Key Guidelines:

• Zero-budget advertising: It will aim for zero-budget advertising and encourage greater spending on activities with an on-ground impact.
  • For promoting sports among girls, construction of girls’ toilets, self-defence camps, , making available sanitary napkin vending machines, especially in educational institutions, awareness about the PC-PNDT Act, etc.
• Target improvement:
  • Increase in the Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) by 2 points every year.
  • Improvement in the institutional deliveries at 95% or above.
  • 1% increase in 1st Trimester ANC Registration per year.
  • 1 percent increase in enrolment at the secondary education level.
• Khelo India: The program will also look at increasing girls’ participation in sports by finding talent and linking them with proper authorities under ‘Khelo India’.
• One-Stop Centres: To strengthen One-Stop Centres (OSCs).
  • Additional 300 One-Stop Centres to be set up; existing centres to be upgraded.

• Helpline no: The toll-free, 181, will be merged with the Emergency Response Support System, and other platforms such as 1098 child line and NALSA, will also be connected to OSCs.
• Nari Adalat: The ministry has introduced a new component, Nari Adalat.
  • It will provide women with an alternate grievance redress mechanism to resolve cases of petty nature (harassment, subversion, curtailment of rights or entitlements) at the gram panchayat level.

About Beti Bachao Beti Padhao:

• • Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is the Centre’s flagship programme for women’s empowerment, which focuses on education of girl child and improving sex ratio.
  • It was launched in 2015; the programme is operational in 405 districts at present.
  • Child Sex Ratio: It is defined as the number of females per 1000 males in the age group 0–6 years.
  • In the census of 2001, the child sex ratio of India was 927, which declined to 918 in the census 2011.
  • Nodal Ministry: It’s an initiative of the Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health and Family Welfare and Human Resource Development.
  • It is implemented by states with 100 percent central assistance.

• Objective:

Ensure survival & protection of the girl child

• • Ensure education of the girl child