New DelhiFormer Congress President Rahul Gandhi mentioned that under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme, ‘about 80 percent of the allocated amount was spent on media campaigns during the year 2016 to 2019’. On Saturday, he attacked the government over the report of a parliamentary committee and alleged that the real slogan of the BJP is ‘Save Image, Photo Chhapwao’. Quoting the news related to the report of the Parliamentary Committee, he tweeted, “The original slogan of the BJP – save the image, print the photo!”
Significantly, with special reference to the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, the report of the committee headed by BJP MP Heena Gavit on empowering women through education said, ” The committee is also getting to see that out of Rs 446.72 crore released during the period 2016 to 2019, 78.91 per cent of the amount has been spent on media publicity and the committee is not happy at all.
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Under the scheme since its inception in 2014-15, only 25.15 per cent of the allocated amount by the states so far except in the COVID-affected year, has been described as “sad” and said that it reflects their “poor” performance. does.
According to the report, since the launch of the scheme in the year 2014-15, the total allocation under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ (BBBP) scheme was Rs. 622.48 crore was released to the states. (agency)