New Delhi: The central government has undertaken many initiatives that focus on empowering the girl child including access to education, better healthcare and improving gender sensitivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on National Girl Child Day on Sunday.
India celebrates the National Girl Child Day, an initiative of the ministry of women and child development, every year on January 24.
“On National Girl Child Day, we salute our #DeshKiBeti and the accomplishments in various fields,” Modi said in a tweet.
The central government has undertaken many initiatives that focus on empowering the girl child, including access to education, better healthcare and improving gender sensitivity, he said.
“Today is also a day to specially appreciate all those working towards empowering the girl child and ensuring she leads a life of dignity and opportunity,” the prime minister said in another tweet.
Today is also a day to specially appreciate all those working towards empowering the girl child and ensuring she leads a life of dignity and opportunity. #DeshKiBeti
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 24, 2021
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Don’t salute them or worship them, Sir, just show them some humanly concern when a Hathras or a Kathua or recently a Badaun happens. Seven years is a very long time Mr. Modi. Your total indifference to women is too glaringly evident, no matter what high-sounding rhetoric you decide to use from time to time. You have remained CONSISTENTLY & COMPLETELY SILENT when so many dastardly acts have happened to women under your rule