Government has decided to extend the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ (BBBP) scheme to 61 more districts this year to improve the skewed child sex ratio. The programme was launched in 100 districts with poor sex ratio across the country in January last year.
More than 50 per cent of the districts showed improvement during initial months of the launch of the scheme,said a senior Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry official. He said, it is due to the scheme’s success that for the first time in ten years, Haryana’s sex ratio at birth for December 2015 has crossed the 900 mark with 903 girls per 1,000 boys.
Through the programme, the government sought to improve the declining trend of child sex ratio (CSR) in 100 selected districts from every state and UT from the current level of 918, by preventing gender-biased sex selection and ensuring survival, protection and education of a girl child.