India celebrates National Girl Child Day on January 24 every year with an objective to provide support and opportunities to the girls of India.
It aims towards promoting awareness about the rights of the girl child and to increase awareness on the importance of girl education, and their health and nutrition and also to promote the girl’s position in the society to make their living better among the society.
Gender discrimination is a major problem that girls or women face throughout their life. National Girl Child Day was first initiated in 2008 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Objectives of National Girl Child Day
The objective of National Girl Child Day is to create awareness about the rights a girl owns and to give girls the opportunities like everyone else, also to support the girl child of the nation and remove gender-based biases.
Another objective of celebrating this day is to promote awareness about the inequalities that a girl child faces and educate people about girls’ education.
Basically to value them and to respect them like everybody else and give a new perspective towards girl child and to decrease discrimination.
The main focus is on changing society’s attitude towards girls, decreasing female feticide, and creating awareness about the decreasing sex ratio.
Govenment Schemes for Women Empowerment
The Indian government has taken several steps over the years to improve the conditions of girls. The government has started several campaigns and programs some of them are-
- Save the Girl Child,
- Beti Bachao Beti Padhao,
- Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
- CBSE Udaan Scheme
- Free or subsidized education for girl child,
- Reservation for women in colleges and universities
- National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education
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