{"id":711749,"date":"2020-11-12T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2020\/11\/beti-bachao-beti-padhao-scheme-is-just-another-addition-in-pen-and-paper-or-in-reality\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:58:34","slug":"beti-bachao-beti-padhao-scheme-is-just-another-addition-in-pen-and-paper-or-in-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2020\/11\/beti-bachao-beti-padhao-scheme-is-just-another-addition-in-pen-and-paper-or-in-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Patriarchal Undertone To The \u2018Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ Scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"
India has been the home of 1\/3rd<\/sup> of the ten-million child-brides in the world. The desire for male-child as a legacy in India is institutionalised by existing hierarchical cultural understanding. This has led to female foeticide, female infanticide and also homicides of wife and daughters of the families.<\/p> In September 1994, PC and PNDT Act (pre-conception and pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act) were enacted to prevent female foeticide and ban pre-natal sex determination. However, such acts continue to be in practice outside the law and go unnoticed.<\/p> The Child-Sex ratio (CSR) in India acts as a key determining factor to understand the dis-empowering condition of women in Indian society. The CSR is majorly affected because of the decline of sex-ratio at birth. The existing socio-cultural biases continue to contribute to the deteriorating condition of girl-child in Indian society. In 2011, the child-sex ration reached an all-time low of 918 girls for every 1000 boys. Though the elected parties in power make similar kinds of promises around equality and empowerment of women, they fail to execute those differently.<\/p>What is ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao?’<\/strong><\/h3>