NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY: बेटियां है तोह सभ्यता है, सभ्यता है तोह समाज है

 

Girl, woman, female what does all these words reflect? Well yes, many emotions strike in our mind when we consider about the role of a girl, woman or female in our life. It relates with many emotions such as strength, empowerment, achiever, role-model, beautiful and many more which we cannot describe in words. But, what about the injustice and discrimination girls are facing from past several years in our Indian Society? Keeping such things on consideration “National girl child day” was established let’s discuss about some of the significance of this day:

National Girl child day: Significance and History

As per Women Ministry and child development the purpose of establishing National girl child day is to raise awareness among the Indian society about the injustice and discrimination happening with girls every day. These injustice and discrimination are taking place in terms of education, gender inequality, employment, clothing and others. In Indian society it is very common to face such biasness in terms of modernization and education.       

This day was established on 24th of January, 2008 and as per Women Ministry and child development the motive is not only highlighting the prejudice, exploitation and injustice among girls but also to honor feminism and right for females.

In the name inequality and injustice with girls some of the steps taken by Women Ministry and child development in Indian society are listed below:-   

·         Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

·         Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana

·         CBSE Udaan scheme

·         Save the girl child

·         Reservation for girls in college and universities

·         Free education provided to girls in school

·         National Scheme of Incentive to girls for Secondary Education

These steps and events are taken by the government to make people more aware about the education and rights for girls so that she can be valued and respected in our society.

Such schemes and steps are taken by government to bring changes and awareness in Indian society and obviously the Indian population came forward to make this society a better place for girls things are getting better day per day, females are raising their voice for right to justice and education, even in employment sector they are getting the opportunities to compete with their male colleagues, they can wear what they want and comfortable with it, either she is house-wife or working professional both should be respected in the same ways. But we are still far behind in making this society a better and safer place for women. Every day new cases of crime took place, out of which more than half of the victims are girls. Our society needs to develop more!

                    पढ़ तो रही है बेटियां, पर क्या आज भी सुरक्षित है बेटियां?

--Megha Gupta