Tag: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Jharsuguda: Unending cases of child abandonment have raised serious concerns over the lack of awareness among the masses about the far-fetching repercussions as one more newborn girl was found lying on the roadside near Jhandapada under Lakhanpur Tehsil of Jharsuguda district here on Thursday. Rescued by villagers, the girl was immediately rushed to a nearby […]

Mumbai: Veteran actress Shabana Azmi says for the government’s “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” campaign to be effective, “our betis (daughters) should be alive”. Shabana shared her thoughts at Anu and Shashi Ranjan-organised 20th Beti FLO GR8 Awards 2018, which she attended here on Monday night with Jeetendra, Amit Sadh, Bhumi Pednekar, Huma Qureshi, Anup Jalota […]

Surat: Two Indian kids are all set to try to conquer Europe’s highest peak, summit, Mount Elbrus in Russia’s Caucasus, with their parents to support the cause of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’. Accompanied by their parents Sarika and Jignesh Mehta, 9-year-old Dhanshree and her 13-year-old brother Janam will start the journey on June 10. Both […]

Gurgaon: Haryana has not appointed Bollywood star Parineeti Chopra as the brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign in the state, Social Justice, Empowerment and Women and Child Development minister Kavita Jain said yesterday. Jain was talking to media persons after participating in an event related to the campaign. A state government spokesman […]

Chandigarh: The Haryana government yesterday appointed Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra as its brand ambassador for the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign to promote the cause of the girl child. A government spokesman said Parineeti was chosen for the campaign as she hailed from the state’s Ambala town, 45 km from here. “A mega event has […]

Panipat: In a determined effort to counter the adverse sex ratio in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday launched the nationwide ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ (save girl child and educate her) campaign from Panipat, in Haryana. The prime minister flagged off 72 campaign vehicles (raths) on the occasion that will make people aware about the […]

Dehradun: Uttarakhand has been adjudged as one of the country’s five best performing states in ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, a central scheme aimed at addressing declining child sex ratio and issues of women empowerment. The state will be felicitated, along with the other selected states, in recognition of its consistent performance in respect of sex […]

Bhubaneswar: Even as Odisha’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) posted a rise in 2018-19, the SRB has been less than that of 2015-16. For which, neither Odisha nor any of its districts had been selected in the country’s top-5 states and top -20 districts under Modi government’s flagship scheme of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP). […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index 2019-20 showing a dip in sex ratio at birth, the Odisha government has recently brought all 30 districts under the Modi Government’s flagship scheme Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP). As per the SDG- Index 2019-20 released recently, the sex ratio at birth in Odisha in […]