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  ‘International Day of the Girl Child’: Technology helping empower girls through education

  India | October 11, 2017 15:43 IST

  Data shows that Delhi government’s 106 pc increase in education budget to uplift quality of education hasn’t really had the desired impact.

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  AAS launches 'Save Girl, Educate Girl' campaign

  India | August 21, 2015 15:17 IST

  New Delhi: Taking a step ahead Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' initiative, a Delhi-based NPO, AAS, launched ‘Save Girl, Educate Girl' campaign.The campaign was launched at an event organized in Talkatora Stadium

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  No Swacch Bharat without children's rights: Kailash Satyarthi

  India | July 13, 2015 20:25 IST

  New Delhi: Nobel laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi on Monday said the Indian laws still do not define child labour in a definitive way and that 'Swachh Bharat' cannot be attained if children's rights

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  #SelfieWithDaughter: Can India Save 23 Million Girls?

  India | July 01, 2015 15:03 IST

  India's child sex-ratio (below six years) is now the worst in 70 years, possibly the worst ever. The latest decline was from 927 (girls per 1,000 boys) in 2001 to 918 in 2011.The child sex-ratio,

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  Haryana village launches 'selfie with daughter' contest

  India | June 13, 2015 10:21 IST

  Jind: In a unique initiative to save girl child in Haryana, where the sex ratio has been dismally low, a village panchayat in Jind has started a contest for clicking "selfie with daughter".Bibipur village panchayat

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  CAG slams Gujarat's poor efforts to save female children

  India | April 01, 2015 7:51 IST

  Gandhinagar: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has observed 'significant deficiencies' by the Gujarat government in implementing its schemes for protection and welfare of female children.The CAG report, for the year 2013-14 tabled in the