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National Girl Child Day, 2021

January 23, 2021

National Girl Child Day in India is celebrated on January 24 every year. The day was an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2008. The objective behind celebrating the National Girl Child Day is to provide support and opportunities to the girls of India. It also aims towards promoting awareness about the rights of the girl child and to increase awareness on the importance of girl education and their health and nutrition.

Starting from female infanticide to gender inequality to sexual abuse, there is no dearth of issues. The main objective behind this is to highlight the inequalities faced by girls, to promote awareness including the rights of a girl child, the importance of education, health, and nutrition.
Nowadays also gender discrimination is a major problem that girls or women face throughout their life.