Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme: An initiative launched by the Government of India to spread awareness to save girls

Context: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme Increases Awareness and Sensitize the Masses on Gender Equality.

The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme,

It was launched in 2015 with the objective of bringing behavioural change in the society towards birth and rights of a girl child.
During the last 6 years the Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) has improved by 16 points from 918 in 2014-15 to 934 in 2019-20.
Gross Enrolment Ratio of girls in the schools at secondary level has improved from 77.45 to 81.32.

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao : Achievements so far

During the last 6 years since its inception, the BBBP scheme has been aiming at changing the mindset of the public to acknowledge the rights of the girl child.
The scheme has resulted in increased awareness and sensitization of the masses regarding prevalence of gender bias and role of community in eradicating it.
It has raised concerns around the issue of declining CSR in India.
As a result of collective consciousness of the people supporting the campaign, BBBP has found its place in public discourse.

Progress in terms of monitorable targets:

Promising trends of improvement in Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) have been observed at National level.
SRB has improved by 16 points from 918 (2014-15) to 934 (2019-20), as per the HMIS data of MoH&FW.
Out of 640 districts covered under BBBP 422 districts have shown improvement in SRB from 2014-15 to 2018-2019.

Health :

Percentage of 1st Trimester ANC Registration has shown an improving trend from 61% in 2014-15 to 71% in 2019-20 ( As per HMIS, MoH&FW).
Percentage of Institutional Deliveries has shown an improving trend from 87% in 2014-15 to 94% in 2019-20 ( As per HMIS, MoH&FW).

Education :

Gross Enrolment Ratio of girls in the schools at secondary level has improved from 77.45 (2014-15) to 81.32 (2018-19-provisional figures) as per UDISE-data.
Percentage of schools with functional separate toilets for girls has shown improvement from 92.1% in 2014-15 to 95.1% in 2018-19 (2018-19 provisional figure, as per UDISE-data )

Attitudinal change:

The BBBP scheme has been able to bring the focus on important issue of female infanticide, lack of education amongst girls and deprivation of their rights on a life cycle continuum.
The scheme has successfully engaged with Community to defy the age old biases against the girl child and introduce innovative practices to celebrate the girl child.
The frontline government employees have been successfully collaborating at the level of community for observing the son centric rituals while celebrating the birth of girl child i.e. Kuwapoojan, Thalibajana etc.
Now mothers and girl child are being felicitated at community level and in hospitals by Administration to establish the relevance of the girl child.
BetiJanmotsav is one of the key programme celebrated in each district.