‘Kanya Shikhsa Pravesh Utsav’
- Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav is a campaign to bring out-of-school adolescent Indian girls back into the formal education and skilling system.
- The campaign was launched on the eve of International Women’s Day (8th March 2022) by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
- The launch event was attended by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani, National and State Secretaries from the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Ministry of Education, and other representatives from all across the country. Many adolescent girls also participated in the launch event and shared their experiences of reintegrating into school.
- At the end of the event all dignitaries signed the wall of pledge ‘Sankalp ki Deewar’ to mark the occasion as a promise that no girl is deprived of formal education.
- The campaign aims to increase the enrolment and retention of the number of adolescent girls (girls aged 11 to 14) in school. The campaign builds on existing schemes for girls such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), National Education Policy (NEP), Scheme or Adolescent Girls (SAG), etc.
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