’Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’ campaign from March 7, 2022

With the aim of again regularising the education of the girls who have left school in the state, the Women and Child Development Department is starting the ‘Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’ campaign from March 7, 2022. The main objective of the campaign for “Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao” is to identify girls of school-going age in the age group of 11 to 14 years who have left school and ensure their readmission in the schools.

It is noteworthy that the overall goal of the “Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao” campaign launched in the year 2015 is to celebrate the birth of the girl child and to empower her by educating, There is also a provision to provide protein, calorie-rich take home ration to school-going adolescent girls for three hundred days by the Women and Child Development Department. Survey of Anganwadi centres is conducted by the department every year in the month of April. In this, information is collected about such adolescent girls in the age group of 11 to 14 years, who have left school, have not taken admission in school, have taken admission once but are not going to school or have stopped going to school for some time. Take home ration is given to such beneficiary girls.