Sukanya samriddhi yojana: An appraisal

Social welfare aims at the well-being and improvement of the life of individuals in general and alleviating the sufferings and ameliorating the lot of the destitute, deprived disadvantaged and underprivileged sections of society in particular. The girl child India was never a preferred one from ages, reason being, marriage and dowry. Due to this, several other issues developed like aborting of girl child, no education for girls etc. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is a special deposit schemes in post office or authorized branches of commercial Bank. This scheme was launched to tackle the two major problems because of which the girl child is seen as a burden in our country education and marriage. The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the impact of the Scheme Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana at district level to raise the gender imbalance and discrimination against girl child.