12. Over the years, there have been many initiatives across India to promote the girl child and improve its poor child sex ratio. The schemes have differed in name, but converged in their general inefficiency. Examine. How does the “Beti Padhao Beti Bachao Yojna” seek to address this gap?

Approach:

♤ As introduction acknowledge the challenging conditions of girl child in India despite multiplicity of schemes.

♤ Provide the arguments for the inefficiency of these schemes preferably with examples.

♤ The last part of the answer needs to be answered by providing the distinguishing feature of the BPBBY scheme.