Nari Samman नारी सम्मान
"Every daughter deserves a future."
Protecting the girl child. Upholding a woman's dignity.
Nari Samman confronts one of India's deepest injustices — the idea that a daughter is a burden. We work to end female foeticide and sex-selective abortion, to protect and empower the girl child, and to restore the dignity every woman is owed from birth.
This is not charity. It begins with a mother's story, travels through hard data and honest dialogue, and ends in real action — awareness that changes minds, support that changes lives, and vigilance that upholds the law.
— Manusmriti 3.56
The numbers behind the silence
Sources: Government of India SRS, UNFPA State of World Population, and PCPNDT Act monitoring reports.
Four ways this mission works on the ground
Clear, practical programs — each designed to move a daughter from unwanted to celebrated.
1 · Awareness Campaigns
Village-to-village and school outreach that challenges son-preference — through real stories, community meetings, street theatre and regional-language media that reframe daughters as pride, not burden.
2 · Girl-Child Support
Scholarships, education kits, nutrition and health awareness for girls — plus recognition programs that honour families raising and educating daughters with pride.
3 · PCPNDT Vigilance
Working with citizens and authorities to monitor illegal prenatal sex-determination, encourage safe reporting, and push for genuine enforcement of the law that already exists.
4 · Celebrating Daughters
Public celebrations of girl children — birth welcomes, achievement felicitations and role-model spotlights — to shift culture from mourning a daughter's arrival to rejoicing in it.
How we turn a story into change
Listen
To mothers and daughters who lived it.
Understand
District sex-ratio realities.
Research
Enforcement gaps & what works.
Act
Awareness, support & vigilance.
Change
More daughters, welcomed & educated.
Reach 200 high-risk villages with the message: a daughter is a gift.
We track our progress openly and publish it — because trust is earned in the light.
See the Impact DashboardNari Samman — 2026 target
62%Villages reached with girl-child awareness & support programs.
Girl-child scholarships
45%Progress toward first 5,000 supported girls.
The research behind this mission
We ground our work in credible, published evidence. Explore key national studies and reports on this issue.
Skewed Sex Ratio & Female Foeticide in India
BIO Web of Conferences · 2024 · peer-reviewed
A data analysis of India's declining child sex ratio and the drivers of sex-selective practice.
Read the reportIndia's ‘Missing’ Girls
Down To Earth · on Census & NFHS data
Reporting that ~9 million girls went ‘missing’ to foeticide over two decades.
Read the reportReports open in a new tab. We cite these sources for public awareness and do not claim authorship.
Current government schemes for this cause
National programmes working on this issue. We align our grassroots work with these initiatives — and help people access them.
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
Ministry of Women & Child Development
Flagship campaign to save & educate the girl child and improve the child sex ratio.
Official websiteMission Shakti
Ministry of Women & Child Development
Women's safety, security & empowerment — One Stop Centres, helpline 181, Nari Adalat.
Official websiteOfficial government portals — open in a new tab. Vedanvesha Sansthan is an independent organisation and is not affiliated with these schemes.
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः।
Yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ
“Where women are honoured, there the divine truly rejoices.”
— Manusmriti 3.56