National Girl Child Day: Govt to hold activities to promote awareness about Girl Child’s rights

India is celebrating National Girl Child Day. Every year, on January 24, it is observed with an objective to provide support and opportunities to the girls of India.

The purpose of this celebration is to promote awareness about the rights of the girl child. It aims at increasing awareness of the importance of girls education, their health, and nutrition.

Besides, the objective is to promote the girls' position in society to make their living better in society. Girls face the problem of gender discrimination at every level in society throughout their life.

To achieve above mentioned objectives, the Ministry of Women and Child Development was first initiated the National Girl Child Day in 2008.

Highlighting its objectives, the Ministry of Women and Child Development in a press statement said, “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 create awareness about the decreasing sex ratio.”

It added, “Government of India has taken several steps over the years to improve the conditions of girls. Government has started several campaigns and programmes 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 and Reservation for women in colleges and universities.

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