Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah used National Girl Child Day to reaffirm commitments to women-led development and equal opportunities for girls.
- The Women and Child Development Ministry cited a rise in the Sex Ratio at Birth to 930 in 2023–24 and a girls’ secondary Gross Enrolment Ratio reaching 80.2% in 2024–25.
- Local observances included rallies and awareness meetings in Assam’s Dima Hasao and Dibrugarh, where officials pushed PC-PNDT enforcement and urged greater uptake of welfare schemes.
- An editorial perspective warned that campaigns such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao risk becoming performative, urging measurable outcomes, stronger responses to online gender-based abuse, and better adolescent mental-health support.
- Officials highlighted a suite of programmes and laws—BBBP, Sukanya Samriddhi, KGBV, Samagra Shiksha, POSHAN, POCSO, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti—framed as pillars of protection and empowerment.