Sudershan Kumar Sharma
The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. The Day, which is being celebrated on October 11 every year, was the first celebrated on in 2012.
Now-a-days Generation Equality Forum GEF launching five years commitments from civil society leaders, Governments, Corporations and change makers from around the world for bold gender equality impacts.
The pandemic has accelerated digital platforms for learning, earning and connecting, while also highlighting girls, diverse digital realities. Let’s seize the momentum to derive action and accountability of GEF commitments made for and with girls to achieve a bold vision of bridging the digital gender.
Let’s amplify the diversity for freedom of expression, joy and boundless potential, This generation of girls regardless of race gender, language, ability, economic status and Geographic origin lives their full potential.
Nearly 1 in 4 girls aged 15 to 19 globally are not in education , employment or training compared to 1 in 10 boys till date.
Thus with an eye on social and economic impact to adopt bold investment, we should approaches across these themes.
Moreover, National Girl Child Day 2021 is being celebrated across the country with the objective of raising awareness on the issue of and declining child sex ratio.
The objective of celebrating National girl child day is to highlight the inequalities faced by girls.
India also celebrate National Girl Child Day each year in January 24. It has been started by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India in 2008 with the purpose to spread awareness among people about all the inequalities girls face Indian society.
This day was celebrated by organising various programmes including awareness campaign on save the girl child sex ratio and creating a healthy and safe environment for a child girl whereas National Girl Child Day 2021 keeps aims towards promoting awareness about the rights of the girl child and to increase awareness on the importance of girl education and their health.
On the occasion of National day of the Girls child, let’s recognise the rights of girls and also
problems they face around the globe to give them a better life, a better future.
On National Day of the Girls child reminds us that it is our responsibilities to give them the
importance they deserve and work together for their happier lives, it has been long the girl child has been discriminated against, it has been a long that they have been suffering. Let us get their honour back and make it a happy National day of the girls child. The world will be a better place to give the day to the girl child is as happy as the other gender. Let’s work in synergy to make this dream may come true, because Girl child is the sweetest blessing and most beautiful creation of God.
(The Author is a senior lecturer)
