The Ministry of Women and Child Development will be celebrating the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Week from 21st January to 26th January 2019.
This is celebrated every year to promote empowerment of girls and reinforce gender equality. It also provides a platform to raise issues, concerns and challenges faced by girls. In order to influence national and mainstream discourse in favor of girls and women and visibility to BBBP, this is one of the flagship programmes of Government of India, which was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 22nd January, 2015 at Panipat, Haryana.
The week-long celebration will witness various awareness generation activities and community engagement programmes such as Oath ceremonies, prabhat pherries, rallies, nukkad natraks, street plays, joint door to door campaigns by AWWs and ASHAs, Posters/Slogan-writing/ Drawing/Painting competition among school children, tree plantation in the name of girl child, distribution of birth certificates, opening of Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts, sensitization/orientation/counseling sessions and talk shows on gender, health and nutrition, legal rights and Acts.
