Benefits of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ Scheme

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Benefits of educating girls permeate the entire family and have far-reaching impacts within the entire society. Women make up for almost half of the total population of India but they still lag behind men in a lot of areas. It is harrowing to note that a lot of females are not even allowed to be born. Many of those who are fortunate enough to see this world are denied of some of their most basic rights: quality education and healthcare. Many are married off in their teenage. Over the last many years, a significant fraction of number of women has been at the receiving end of discrimination and exploitation. Needless to say, it should be government’s top priority to empower women in a country like India that has witnessed male domination for years.
Women upliftment is nearly impossible if issues like illiteracy, inequality, sexual harassment and female infanticide are not combated in the right manner. The year 2015 saw the launch of a flagship scheme by the Government of India, ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’
‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ is a collaborative initiative being run by Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and it covers all Indian states and union territories. The scheme has three primary objectives:

1. Prevent female infanticide
Convergent efforts by government agencies and NGOs are crucial to ensure survival, safety and empowerment of the fairer sex. Under the scheme, district authorities are required to effectively monitor and ensure that the use of sex-determination tools by families and doctors lead to stringent action by law. Several healthcare centres indulging in such practices have been sealed owing to this programme. Parents, families, doctors and the community at large are being oriented to not resort to sex-determination during pregnancy.    
2. Devise new schemes and work cohesively to ensure that every girl child is secured and protected
BBBP programme is being implemented with full commitment of government officials across the country. These officials  are working in close coordination with each other in order to ensure survival, well-being, security and education of the girl children. The government has been actively working to converge BBBP with other schemes that have been implemented for the well-being of girls in India. 

3. Ensure every girl child gets quality education
This is a very significant aspect of the BBBP scheme. Right to Education Act, 2010 entitles every child has the right to free education till the completion of elementary education in a neighbourhood school. If the girls are educated properly, they will grow up to be self-empowered individuals, better equipped to take their socio-economic decisions in their own and society’s best interests. Under the BBBP scheme, district-level education officials have to ensure that the benefit of free elementary education reaches all the girls in their areas. There is active involvement  of schools and other grass root-level organisations in this. The school management committees that are able to achieve 100% transition of girl students at various educational levels are awarded under the BBBP scheme.

The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme is a praiseworthy initiative by the Government of India. The initiatives under the scheme have started bearing fruit as the level of awareness among the masses to work for girl child upliftment is increasing. 

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