BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO programme is launched by our PM(Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi) on 2nd January in 2015 at Panipat, Haryana. This programme was launched to address the gender imbalance, discrimination & the issue of decreasing girl child ratio in this society. If we see the census report the ratio of the girl child is decreasing every year. It is a danger sign related to the possibility of life on the earth. This scheme is to aware people about the importance of girl in this society.

I'm sorry to say that today we are talking about development in the 21st century, on the other hand, we killed our daughters. We should be ashamed of yourself. In India still, a girl is considered as a burden on the family & think that girl child is a wealth of someone else & don't want to bring up girl child. Girls are equal to the boys, they just need an opportunity, but peoples kill them & take away their lives.

"There Was BREAKING NEWS Flash On This Morning in UTTAR PRADESH there was a lady who had left her THREE-DAYS old daughter in front of someone's house. The owner of that house informed the police & the police got the baby admit it in the hospital for the treatment." Although the authorities are investigating this particular case, it is a stark reminder that we Indians shamelessly continue to kill a large number of our girls either inside the mother’s womb or after their birth.

In our Indian society, a woman has various connotations including “Durga”, “Laxmi”, “Love”, “Mother”, “Honour”, “Pride”, “Beauty” but also “Prostitution”, “Trafficking”, “Rape”, “Acid Attack”, “Harassment”, and “Slave”. For a long time, a girl child has been considered a curse in the Indian society; a social burden, for “who will carry forward the legacy of the family”; an economic burden, for “who is going to pay that hefty amount of dowry”. Although already one of the top powers in the world, the demons of ill-minded societal norms still cloud over India’s present. For some reasons, we have not been collectively able to overcome these archaic norms and narrow-minded thinking. For some reasons, we continue to fail our girls.

Even though we have sufficient laws banning female foeticide, the problem has not gone away. In fact, many would argue that the problem has only become worse. This perhaps necessitates a different approach to solving this menace. We do not need families not killing a girl child because the laws say so, or because they fear being punished. We need them to not kill a girl because they want a daughter. We need them to celebrate having a baby girl. Towards this end, we think that in addition to penalizing the offence, there needs to be a robust mechanism which incentivizes having a girl child in the Indian families. We offer some thoughts in this respect. but the incoming dowry amount, at the time of the boy’s marriage, is also a net profit.

The governments at the Centre and state levels have been running campaigns to stop female foeticide and infanticide for a long while now and they are indeed commendable. But we have a long way to go before we are able to change the way our society operates. Decade-long traditions and mindsets will take ages to get altered. But we need to make a fresh and novel effort to get rid of this curse. We need to protect and actively encourage our girls so that they become the next Kalpana Chawla, former Astronaut; Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Bank; Miss. Deepika Padukone, Bollywood celebrity and Mrs. Saina Mirza, Badmintonist.

Thank You!