Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani today released a book titled Chronicles of Change Champions at an event held in New Delhi.
The book is a compilation of 25 innovative initiatives taken at the state and district levels under the Prime Minister’s flagship scheme of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao. It captures the convergent approach adopted at the grass-root level and provides insight into the unique manner of community engagement by the District Administration and front-line workers.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister congratulated and commended the State and District Administrations of the 25 districts whose innovative activities under Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao have been published in the compilation. She expressed the hope that these stories will inspire other districts and communities.
She also urged all the participants to further commit their support to the rights of the girl child by joining the Jan Andolan and collectively moving forward on the agenda of accomplishing a gender-neutral society. Ms Irani said, the continuation of the scheme in this new decade shows the resolve of the country to the cause of the girl child and added that this decade will be the decade of Indian women and the girl child.
The Minister informed that this year the Ministry will work with Human Resource Development Ministry to launch a mission to get out-of-school girls back into schools with the help of the local community.
She also urged those districts who are lagging in the girl child sex ratio to work with best performing States like Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh who have done commendable work in improving the sex ratio of the girl child.
The Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22nd January 2015 at Panipat, Haryana as a comprehensive programme to address the declining Child Sex Ratio and the related issues of empowerment of women over a life-cycle continuum.
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