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India鈥檚 Prime Minister Narendra Modi started a Twitter trend this past week following a radio address. He called for parents to tweet photos of themselves with their daughters and the hastag #selfiewithdaughter to promote his 鈥淏eti Bachao, Beti Padao鈥� (Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter) campaign.

While some laud the simple concept 鈥� setting an visual example that values women, critics note that Mr. Modi's party has cut funding to government programs supporting women. The that the听lower welfare spending will be compensated for by giving state governments a larger allocation of tax revenues to spend as they choose, in order that they might be able to allocate funds more effectively.听

The is a nationwide effort to address the social bias against girls, stop prenatal sex selection and the aborting of baby girls, and to improve health and education of girls in India. The plan is built on a budget of $31.5 million over three years.

Over the past two decades, India has almost closed its gender gap in primary education and considerably improved the secondary school gap: For every 100 boys who attend school, 98 girls now attend primary school and 85 girls attend secondary school. But sex-selection abortions have risen over the same period, 海角大神 reports.听

The 2011 Census shows that there are 37 million more men than women in India. In 2014, a report by the United Nations Women titled found that India currently has 110 boys born for every 100 girls born; the typical sex ratio at birth is for every 100 females.听

A for the years 2012-2017 characterized this imbalance as, 鈥渁 silent demographic disaster in the making.鈥�

Gender imbalance and creates a long-term situation of males that will not be able to get married in a society where marriage is, 听according to a report conducted by the National Institute of Health.听

In his in August, 2014, Prime Minister Modi discussed a number of topics typically not highlighted by Indian leaders in this annual speech, including issues of rape and female infanticide rates in the nation.

"Today the sex ratio is 940 girls to 1,000 boys. Who is creating this imbalance? Not God," said Modi.

The ratio is even more striking when considering children under the age of 6. In the 2011 census, there were girls for every 1,000 boys which is less than the girls for 1,000 a decade ago.

Modi credited the campaign idea to Sunil Jaglan, the , a state in northern India with one of the country's worst child-gender ratios, who听has conducted a number of campaigns in order to empower women.听

The #selfiewithdaughter听campaign parallels another Modi Twitter campaign with the hashtag, #selfiewithmodi, in which the prime ministerial candidate鈥檚 party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), collected over photos that people had taken, with an app that allowed them to appear as though they were standing next to candidate Modi. A selfie booths were set up around malls and parking lots in Delhi to make this campaign possible.

Modi currently faces criticism regarding budget allocation as the Indian government recently that supported drinking water and welfare for women and children, specifically from the Women and Child Development Ministry.

In the 2014-2015 revised budget, the Women and Child Development Ministry was allocated听 for the fund. In the 2015-2016 budget, the ministry has been allocated about 50 percent of past year鈥檚 budget.听In 2014, India experienced a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 7.4 percent, with a Gross National Income per capita of $5,760.听

The campaign has an overall goal of "听According to the strategic plan, 听