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National Girl Child Day 2025 is annually celebrated on January 24 in India; here's all you need to know.

National Girl Child Day 2025: Know the date, history, significance, and more

January 24, 2025 8:40 am

National Girl Child Day 2025: This national observance serves as an opportunity to raise awareness and advocate that girls receive equal opportunities and support, eliminating gender biases.

In 10 years, the hits and misses of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’

January 24, 2025 5:19 am

What were the key objectives of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao? How have states and UTs performed on indicators like sex ratio at birth over the years? We explain.

PM Narendra Modi on the launch of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign in 2015. (express file photo)

Over past decade, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao has become People-Powered initiative: PM

January 22, 2025 10:29 am

'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' has been instrumental in overcoming gender biases and at the same time it has created the right environment to ensure that the girl child has access to education and opportunities to achieve her dreams, the prime minister said.

With women's quota Bill, BJP playbook in focus: How party is using welfarism and gender politics

September 19, 2023 11:00 am

Steady uptick in women voters drives change on the ground for the ruling party. In 1962, 62% of men and just 46.6% of women voted in the Lok Sabha elections. That percentage rose to 67.2% in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, surpassing the share of men (67%).

Faizan Mustafa writes: Instead of criminalising child marriage, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma should heed PM Modi's call of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

February 07, 2023 9:43 am

The Assam government should use a mass campaign to educate parents, rather than a coercive criminal law, to deal with the problem of child marriages.

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao: Below par spending initially due to lack of awareness, says ministry

August 06, 2022 3:10 am

In its 5th report on the women empowerment submitted in Lok Sabha in the Winter session last year, the committee had raised concerns over the underutilisation of funds as well as larger spendings on advertising, instead of on the health and education of girls.