Education for Creativity Development: A New Thought Stream in Modern Education

Abstract:

The vision of Viksit Bharat 2047 requires India to shift from welfare-driven women’s development toward women-led development, where girls grow into skilled, healthy, economically active citizens. The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) initiative (2015) represents a critical national intervention to correct gender imbalance and strengthen human capital. This paper evaluates BBBP as a long-term economic investment, not merely a social scheme, because improvements in survival, education, and health translate into higher workforce participation, productivity, and national income over time. Government data shows a measurable rise in Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) from 918 (2014–15) to 930 (2023–24), increased girls’ secondary Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from 75.51% to 78%, and a sharp rise in institutional deliveries from 61% to 97.3%. The study further connects these gains with rising female labour outcomes and argues that BBBP contributes to the foundational conditions needed to achieve a $30 trillion economy by 2047.