Raj to be felicitated for lsquoBeti Bachao Beti Padhaorsquo

  • | Sunday | 20th January, 2019

Jaipur: The state will be felicitated and recognised for its performance on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme. The period between 2015-16 and 2017-18, there are 13 districts out of 14 districts covered under BBBP reported increase in CSR at birth. The state is among five to be felicitated under different categories. According to WCD report, between 2015-16 and 2016-17 period, out of 14 identified districts covered under BBBP, 10 of them reported improvement in CSR at birth. MWCD has decided to recognize and felicitate five states for their good work under BBBP by minister of MWCD on National Girl Child Day (NGCD) to mark 4th anniversary of BBBP to be celebrated on January 24.

Jaipur: The state will be felicitated and recognised for its performance on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme. The state is among five to be felicitated under different categories. Recognising state’s performance on BBBP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched pan-India expansion of BBBP in March 2018 from Jhunjhunu.“Rajasthan will be felicitated on BBBP in the category of overall support, guidance, monitoring and achieving the targets of BBBP,” ministry of women and child development (MWCD) director (BBBP)Ashok Kumar Yadav wrote to department of women and child development secretary, Gayatri A Rathore. MWCD has decided to recognize and felicitate five states for their good work under BBBP by minister of MWCD on National Girl Child Day (NGCD) to mark 4th anniversary of BBBP to be celebrated on January 24. “The theme of NGCD, 2019 is ‘empowering girls for a brighter tomorrow’, which will be celebrated with an objective to generate awareness on the issue of declining child sex ratio (CSR) and create a positive environment around valuing the girl child,” Yadav wrote to Rathore. In the state, the child sex ratio (CSR) had gone down from 909 in 2001 Census to 888 in 2011.For improving CSR, the department of women and child development had launched schemes for creating awareness on importance of girl child. According to WCD report, between 2015-16 and 2016-17 period, out of 14 identified districts covered under BBBP, 10 of them reported improvement in CSR at birth. The period between 2015-16 and 2017-18, there are 13 districts out of 14 districts covered under BBBP reported increase in CSR at birth.

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