Panel flags poor fund utilisation in Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme

THE PERFORMANCE of Center’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme in the states has not been sufficient, the Committee on Empowerment of Women has said in its most recent report while communicating “alarm” at the helpless use of assets.

The board, led by Maharashtra BJP Lok Sabha MP Heena Vijaykumar Gavit, postponed its fifth report on “Strengthening of ladies through schooling with extraordinary reference to Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme” in Lok Sabha on Thursday.According to the report, almost 80% of the assets for the plan has been utilized for its promoting and not on sectoral mediations, for example, in wellbeing and instruction for ladies.

The board said since its origin in 2014-15 till 2019-20, the absolute monetary distribution under the plan was Rs 848 crore, barring the Covid-stricken monetary year of 2020-21. During this period, a sum Rs 622.48 crore was delivered to the states.”However, to the board’s consternation, just 25.13% of the assets, for example Rs 156.46 crore, has been spent by the states, reflecting not sufficient execution of the plan,” the board’s report said.The panel additionally saw that out of an aggregate of Rs 446.72 crore delivered during 2016-2019, “an astounding 78.91% was spent uniquely on media promotion”.

“However the advisory group comprehends the need to attempt a media mission to spread the message of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao among individuals, they have felt that it is similarly essential to adjust the destinations of the plan,” the report said.

The board suggested that “the public authority ought to… center around arranged consumption portion for sectoral intercessions in schooling and wellbeing”, the report said.The Supreme Court-delegated Special Investigation Team (SIT) which tested the 2002 post-Godhra riots Thursday said that Zakia Jafri, spouse of killed Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the uproars, and other people who were presently accusing it of favoring the denounced had never pointed fingers at it before however they had sufficient chance to and emphasized that the charges were currently being driven by her co-applicant, dissident Teesta Setalvad.

Senior backer Mukul Rohatgi presented this before a seat of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar which held its judgment on Jafri’s allure testing the Gujarat High Court request maintaining the choice of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Ahmedabad, to acknowledge the conclusion report recorded by the SIT giving a spotless chit to the then state Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in revolt related cases.