Lok Sabha Question No. 2924 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-28
Subject: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: ABHIJIT MUKHERJEE, S.P. MUDDAHANUMEGOWDA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2924

TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.12.2018

## BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO

## 2924.   SHRI ABHIJIT MUKHERJEE: SHRI S.P. MUDDAHANUME GOWDA:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the  Government has any plan to expand the Beti  Bachao  Beti  Padhao (BBBP) scheme  for empowerment of rural women;
- (b) whether  BBBP  scheme  envisages  capacity  building  and  proper  training  of  stakeholders/women  to achieve its goal and if so, the details of the efforts being made by the Government thereunder;
- (c) whether there has been any improvement in the sex ratio after the launch of the BBBP scheme during 2017-18 and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise particularly in Haryana; and
- (d) the further steps taken by the Government to ensure the survival and safety of the new born girl child?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (DR. VIRENDRA KUMAR)

- (a): Since  2018-19,  all  640  districts  (as  per  census  2011)  of  the  country  have  been  covered  under  Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme. Out of 640 districts,  405  districts are  covered  through  Multi  sectoral  intervention,  Media  &  Advocacy  and  235  districts  covered  through  alert  Media  &  Advocacy outreach. BBBP Scheme covers rural women as well as urban.
- (b): Beti  Bachao  Beti  Padhao  (BBBP)  scheme  envisages  capacity  building,  training  &  sensitization  of functionaries  and  stakeholders  to  orient  and  sensitize  them  on  the  critical  issue  of  Child  Sex Ratio(CSR). Ministry of Women and Child Development(MWCD) through National Institute for Public Cooperation & Child Development (NIPCCD), has conducted a series of Capacity-building programmes and  Trainings  for  1664  Master  Trainers  in  18  training  programmes  for  further  strengthening  and capacity building of district level officials and frontline workers covering all States/UTs. Apart from this NIPCCD has been carried  out  capacity  building  of  Trainers  of  State  Institute  of  Rural  Development (SIRDs) and Elected Women Representatives (EWR) on BBBP Scheme.  So far, under Phase I (201718), 486 Master Trainers and 18578 EWRs were trained in 14 States under 414 districts.  The Phase II has been carried out in 07 States under 72 districts, which trained 3403 EWRs on BBBP Scheme.
- (c): As per the latest available reports of Health Management Information System (HMIS) data of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 161 districts selected during 2014-15 and 2015-16 under BBBP indicate improving trend in 104 districts (1 district stable trend) in the period between 2015-16 and 2016-17. A list  of  Sex  Ratio  at  Birth  as  per  HIMS  data of  Ministry  of  Health  &  Family  Welfare  during the period 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 of the 100 district selected under BBBP in Phase I during 2014-15 and for the period 2015-16 and 2016-17 of the 61 districts selected in Phase II during 2015-16 including State of Haryana are annexed as Annexure -I .
- (d): BBBP Scheme is a tri-ministerial, convergent effort of Ministries of  Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development, with a focus on awareness and advocacy campaign  to  change  mindsets,  enforcement  of  Pre-Conception  &  Pre  Natal  Diagnostic  Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act, enabling girl child's survival, safety, and insuring her education.

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## ANNEXURE-I

Annexure referred  to  in  reply  to  Part  (c)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Question  No.2924  for  28.12.2018  by  Shri  Abhijit Mukherjee and Shri S.P. Muddahanume Gowda regarding Bet Bachao Beti Padha.

(i)  Sex  Ratio  at  Birth  (SRB)  as  per  HIMS  data of  Ministry  of  Health  &  Family  Welfare  in  the  period  between 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 of the 100 Districts selected in Phase I under BBBP:

|   SN | Name of State / UT   | Number of Districts   |   2014-15(APR- MARCH) |   2015-16(APR- MARCH) |   2016-17(APR- MARCH) |
|------|----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|    1 | Gujarat (5)          | Surat                 |                   879 |                   886 |                   872 |
|    2 | Gujarat (5)          | Mahesana              |                   900 |                   919 |                   910 |
|    3 | Gujarat (5)          | Gandhinagar           |                   885 |                   883 |                   902 |
|    4 | Gujarat (5)          | Ahmadabad             |                   873 |                   903 |                   915 |
|    5 | Gujarat (5)          | Rajkot                |                   886 |                   906 |                   872 |
|    6 | Haryana (12)         | Mahendragarh          |                   791 |                   809 |                   859 |
|    7 | Haryana (12)         | Jhajjar               |                   838 |                   872 |                   897 |
|    8 | Haryana (12)         | Rewari                |                   803 |                   845 |                   851 |
|    9 | Haryana (12)         | Sonipat               |                   864 |                   869 |                   898 |
|   10 | Haryana (12)         | Ambala                |                   870 |                   877 |                   915 |
|   11 | Haryana (12)         | Kurukshetra           |                   843 |                   864 |                   881 |
|   12 | Haryana (12)         | Rohtak                |                   915 |                   881 |                   893 |
|   13 | Haryana (12)         | Karnal                |                   758 |                   883 |                   854 |
|   14 | Haryana (12)         | Yamunanagar           |                   887 |                   896 |                   912 |
|   15 | Haryana (12)         | Kaithal               |                   887 |                   868 |                   899 |
|   16 | Haryana (12)         | Bhiwani               |                   822 |                   859 |                   860 |
|   17 | Haryana (12)         | Panipat               |                   901 |                   898 |                   941 |
|   18 | Himachal Pradesh (1) | Una                   |                   857 |                   904 |                   931 |
|   19 | Jammu &              | Jammu                 |                   911 |                   886 |                   908 |
|   20 | Kashmir (5)          | Pulwama               |                   983 |                   949 |                  1018 |
|   21 | Kashmir (5)          | Kathua                |                   862 |                   873 |                   852 |
|   22 | Kashmir (5)          | Badgam                |                   972 |                   988 |                   968 |
|   23 | Kashmir (5)          | Anantnag              |                   985 |                  1000 |                   976 |
|   24 | Madhya Pradesh (4)   | Morena                |                   904 |                   909 |                   926 |
|   25 | Madhya Pradesh (4)   | Gwalior               |                   888 |                   918 |                   906 |
|   26 | Madhya Pradesh (4)   | Bhind                 |                   919 |                   898 |                   929 |
|   27 | Madhya Pradesh (4)   | Datia                 |                   887 |                   880 |                   895 |
|   28 | Maharastra (10)      | Bid                   |                   913 |                   898 |                   925 |
|   29 | Maharastra (10)      | Jalgaon               |                   864 |                   898 |                   901 |
|   30 | Maharastra (10)      | Ahmadnagar            |                   904 |                   906 |                   895 |
|   31 | Maharastra (10)      | Buldana               |                   934 |                   954 |                   913 |
|   32 | Maharastra (10)      | Aurangabad            |                   917 |                   929 |                   927 |
|   33 | Maharastra (10)      | Washim                |                   974 |                   903 |                   910 |
|   34 | Maharastra (10)      | Kolhapur              |                   889 |                   903 |                   881 |
|   35 | Maharastra (10)      | Osmanabad             |                   883 |                   909 |                   912 |
|   36 | Maharastra (10)      | Sangli                |                   885 |                   889 |                   893 |
|   37 | Maharastra (10)      | Jalna                 |                   901 |                   887 |                   900 |

|   38. | NCT of Delhi (5)   | South West                 |   878 |   881 |   875 |
|-------|--------------------|----------------------------|-------|-------|-------|
|    39 | NCT of Delhi (5)   | North West                 |   898 |   899 |   911 |
|    40 | NCT of Delhi (5)   | East                       |   888 |   918 |   900 |
|    41 | NCT of Delhi (5)   | West                       |   868 |   881 |   915 |
|    42 | NCT of Delhi (5)   | North                      |   913 |   904 |   930 |
|    43 | Punjab (11)        | Tarn Taran                 |   874 |   880 |   889 |
|    44 | Punjab (11)        | Gurdaspur                  |   879 |   866 |   881 |
|    45 | Punjab (11)        | Amritsar                   |   897 |   909 |   892 |
|    46 | Punjab (11)        | Muktsar                    |   899 |   896 |   889 |
|    47 | Punjab (11)        | Mansa                      |   857 |   925 |   894 |
|    48 | Punjab (11)        | Patiala                    |   847 |   866 |   890 |
|    49 | Punjab (11)        | Sangrur                    |   864 |   848 |   879 |
|    50 | Punjab (11)        | Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar |   955 |   936 |   910 |
|    51 | Punjab (11)        | Fatehgarh Sahib            |   873 |   889 |   928 |
|    52 | Punjab (11)        | Barnala                    |   855 |   836 |   893 |
|    53 | Punjab (11)        | Firozpur                   |   876 |   859 |   871 |
|    54 | Rajasthan (10)     | Jhunjhunun                 |   893 |   903 |   952 |
|    55 | Rajasthan (10)     | Sikar                      |   939 |   923 |   963 |
|    56 | Rajasthan (10)     | Karauli                    |   942 |   927 |   914 |
|    57 | Rajasthan (10)     | Ganganagar                 |   918 |   934 |   952 |
|    58 | Rajasthan (10)     | Dhaulpur                   |   930 |   924 |   945 |
|    59 | Rajasthan (10)     | Jaipur                     |   912 |   904 |   928 |
|    60 | Rajasthan (10)     | Dausa                      |   930 |   921 |   932 |
|    61 | Rajasthan (10)     | Alwar                      |   915 |   912 |   931 |
|    62 | Rajasthan (10)     | Bharatpur                  |   933 |   922 |   914 |
|    63 | Rajasthan (10)     | Sawai Madhopur             |   947 |   913 |   908 |
|    64 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Baghpat                    |   919 |   903 |   882 |
|    65 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Gautam Buddha Nagar        |   844 |   873 |   875 |
|    66 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Ghaziabad                  |   899 |   977 |   908 |
|    67 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Meerut                     |   866 |   878 |   884 |
|    68 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Bulandshahr                |   866 |   864 |   902 |
|    69 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Agra                       |   876 |   842 |   905 |
|    70 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Muzaffarnagar              |   884 |   909 |   931 |
|    71 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Mahamaya Nagar             |   867 |   884 |   885 |
|    72 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Jhansi                     |   860 |   900 |   925 |
|    73 | Uttar Pradesh (10) | Mathura                    |   900 |   913 |   876 |
|    74 | Uttarakhand (2)    | Pithoragarh                |   881 |   901 |   873 |
|    75 |                    | Champawat                  |   887 |   959 |   973 |
|    76 | Andaman& Nicobar   | Nicobars                   |   985 |   948 |   839 |
|    77 | Andhra Pradesh     | Y.S.R.                     |   944 |   900 |   974 |
|    78 | Arunachal Pradesh  | Dibang Valley              |  1073 |   761 |  1176 |
|    79 | Assam              | Kamrup Metropolitan        |   942 |   969 |   950 |

|   80. | Bihar                | Vaishali             |   915 |   887 |   879 |
|-------|----------------------|----------------------|-------|-------|-------|
|    81 | Chandigarh           | Chandigarh           |   874 |   906 |   921 |
|    82 | Chhattisgarh         | Raigarh              |   926 |   928 |   934 |
|    83 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | Dadra & Nagar Haveli |   942 |   951 |   934 |
|    84 | Daman & Diu          | Daman                |   918 |   919 |   946 |
|    85 | Goa                  | North Goa            |   916 |   910 |   951 |
|    86 | Jharkhand            | Dhanbad              |   861 |   890 |   914 |
|    87 | Karnataka            | Bijapur              |   948 |   941 |   968 |
|    88 | Kerala               | Thrissur             |   959 |   965 |   942 |
|    89 | Tripura              | South Tripura        |   953 |   915 |   978 |
|    90 | Manipur              | Senapati             |   991 |   974 |   980 |
|    91 | Meghalaya            | Ribhoi               |   949 |   975 |   940 |
|    92 | Mizoram              | Saiha                |   915 |  1022 |   898 |
|    93 | Nagaland             | Longleng             |   954 |   984 |   942 |
|    94 | Odisha               | Nayagarh             |   845 |   883 |   860 |
|    95 | Puducherry           | Yanam                |  1107 |   981 |   976 |
|    96 | Sikkim               | North District       |   831 |  1009 |  1011 |
|    97 | Tamil Nadu           | Cuddalore            |   856 |   937 |   931 |
|    98 | Telengana            | Hyderabad            |   946 |   938 |   967 |
|    99 | Lakshadweep          | Lakshadweep          |  1000 |   832 |   955 |
|   100 | West Bengal          | Kolkata              |   922 |   929 |   939 |

## (ii)  Sex  Ratio  at Birth  (SRB) as per HIMS data of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare  in the period between 2015-16 and 2016-17 of the 61 Districts selected in Phase II under BBBP:

|   SN | Name of State / UT   | Number of Districts   |   2015-16(APR-MARCH) |   2016-17(APR-MARCH) |
|------|----------------------|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
|    1 | Gujarat (4)          | Anand                 |                  924 |                  931 |
|    2 | Gujarat (4)          | Amreli                |                  916 |                  911 |
|    3 | Gujarat (4)          | Patan                 |                  945 |                  936 |
|    4 | Gujarat (4)          | Bhavnagar             |                  902 |                  873 |
|    5 | Haryana (8)          | Gurgaon               |                  887 |                  892 |
|    6 | Haryana (8)          | Jind                  |                  866 |                  913 |
|    7 | Haryana (8)          | Faridabad             |                  890 |                  894 |
|    8 | Haryana (8)          | Hisar                 |                  910 |                  927 |
|    9 | Haryana (8)          | Fatehabad             |                  895 |                  927 |
|   10 | Haryana (8)          | Sirsa                 |                  941 |                  911 |
|   11 | Haryana (8)          | Panchkula             |                  887 |                  929 |
|   12 | Haryana (8)          | Palwal                |                  921 |                  935 |
|   13 | Himachal Pradesh (2) | Kangra                |                  887 |                  897 |
|   14 | Himachal Pradesh (2) | Hamirpur              |                  849 |                  943 |
|   15 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Samba                 |                  908 |                  884 |
|   16 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Baramula              |                  948 |                  994 |
|   17 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Ganderbal             |                  985 |                  992 |
|   18 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Rajouri               |                  947 |                  937 |
|   19 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Srinagar              |                  957 |                  980 |
|   20 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Shupiyan              |                 1062 |                  959 |
|   21 | Jammu & Kashmir (10) | Kupwara               |                 1027 |                  961 |

|   22. | Kulgam 1057               |   1087 |     |
|-------|---------------------------|--------|-----|
|    23 | Udhampur                  |    880 | 881 |
|    24 | Bandipore                 |    964 | 885 |
|    25 | Rewa                      |    913 | 917 |
|    26 | Tikamgarh                 |    917 | 917 |
|    27 | Hingoli                   |    953 | 916 |
|    28 | Solapur                   |    878 | 910 |
|    29 | Pune                      |    911 | 889 |
|    30 | Parbhani                  |    941 | 911 |
|    31 | Nashik                    |    922 | 913 |
|    32 | Latur                     |    929 | 940 |
|    33 | North East                |    920 | 960 |
|    34 | South                     |    916 | 899 |
|    35 | Faridkot                  |    899 | 909 |
|    36 | Bathinda                  |    885 | 888 |
|    37 | Ludhiana                  |    881 | 935 |
|    38 | Moga                      |    919 | 928 |
|    39 | Rupnagar                  |    920 | 927 |
|    40 | Hoshiarpur                |    905 | 914 |
|    41 | Kapurthala                |    884 | 905 |
|    42 | Jalandhar                 |    919 | 892 |
|    43 | Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar |    918 | 904 |
|    44 | Jaisalmer                 |    925 | 914 |
|    45 | Hanumangarh               |    971 | 973 |
|    46 | Jodhpur                   |    948 | 949 |
|    47 | Tonk                      |    926 | 978 |
|    48 | Etawah                    |    902 | 911 |
|    49 | Aligarh                   |    814 | 854 |
|    50 | Etah                      |    897 | 878 |
|    51 | Firozabad                 |    890 | 940 |
|    52 | Jalaun                    |    884 | 905 |
|    53 | Bijnor                    |    894 | 873 |
|    54 | Mainpuri                  |    840 | 871 |
|    55 | Hamirpur                  |    818 | 839 |
|    56 | Saharanpur                |    906 | 909 |
|    57 | Farrukhabad               |    880 | 886 |
|    58 | Mahoba                    |    873 | 921 |
|    59 | Hardwar                   |    876 | 917 |
|    60 | Dehradun                  |    933 | 923 |
|    61 | Chamoli                   |    944 | 894 |