Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao: Ten Years of the BBBP Scheme
Why in the news
The scheme turned ten, showing gains in birth sex ratio and girls’ schooling.
Key facts
- Nodal ministry: Women and Child Development, with Health and Family Welfare and Education.
- Design: a convergence effort of three ministries, Women and Child Development, Health and Education (earlier HRD).
- Aim: prevent sex-selective elimination, protect girls, promote education.
- Survey in Madhya Pradesh: 89.5% aware; 63.2% motivated to send daughters to school.
Exam angle
- Launch place: Panipat.
- Birth sex ratio figures: 919 and 929.