On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Pan India Expansion of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) covering all 640 districts of the Country at a mega event held at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan on March 8, 2018.
- About the scheme: On January 22, 2015, Government of India had launched Beti Bachao – Beti Padhao (BBBP), a programme of massive awareness building and strategic interventions to ensure the survival, protection and education of the girl child. The programme was launched in Haryana.
- The programme evoked an unprecedented response across the country. The implementation has been led by District Collectors and their teams.
- As per data available in the Health Management Information System, there has been an improvement in the sex ratio at birth. The efforts with the active participation of States/Districts have brought out encouraging results in achieving its goal; as a result of which the Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) which was 918 in 2014-15 has improved to 926 in 2016-17 as per HMIS data.
- The total outlay of BBBP is ₹1132.5 Crore from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
- The BBBP scheme is being implemented as a tri-ministerial, convergent effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development with focus on awareness and advocacy campaign, multi-sectoral action, enabling girls’ education and effective enforcement of Pre-Conception & Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques
(PC&PNDT) Act.
