Which programme of the Government of India is described as an importa…

Which programme of the Government of India is described as an important effort in the actualisation of a gender-just society?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana

Option (1) Janani Suraksha Yojana — Incorrect. Janani Suraksha Yojana is a safe motherhood scheme. It helps poor pregnant women give birth in health centres, so its aim is safer childbirth.

Option (2) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana — Incorrect. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana gives cooking gas connections to poor households in the names of women. It is a fuel scheme for clean cooking, with a different aim.

Option (3) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana — Correct. Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana means 'save the daughter, educate the daughter'. It is described as an important effort towards a gender-just society, which rests on educated women and an improved sex ratio.

Option (4) Mahila Samakhya Programme — Incorrect. Mahila Samakhya is an education programme for the empowerment of rural women. Its focus is learning and group strength among poor women in villages, so it is a different programme.

NCERT (2026-27): “Post 1947 …
There has also been greater recognition that both men and women are constrained by the dominant gender identities. For instance, men in patriarchal societies feel they must be strong and successful. It is not, manly, to express oneself emotionally. A gender-just society would allow both men and women to be free. This of course rests on the idea that for true freedom to grow and develop, injustices of all kind have to end. The idea of gender-just society is based upon two important factors — educated women with multiple roles and improved sex ratio. The programme of the Government of India, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana is an important effort in the actualisation of a gender-just society.”

Which programme of the Government of India is described as an important effort in the actualisation of a gender-just society?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana

Option (1) Janani Suraksha Yojana — Incorrect. Janani Suraksha Yojana is a safe motherhood scheme. It helps poor pregnant women give birth in health centres, so its aim is safer childbirth.