National Girl Child Day 2020: History, Significance Of The Day Celebrated On January 24

National Girl Child Day 2020 is being celebrated in India on January 24. Girl Child is often stunted with paramount inequalities, patriarchal discrimination or in some cases the conscious efforts to raise awareness on these issues. This is the main motivation behind National Girl Child Day celebrations in India. Started by the Government of India & Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2008, the celebrations are focused on raising awareness on the problems that the girl child continues to face, from female foeticide to child marriages and more

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