District magistrates of the respective areas will be held responsible for poor progress under the Centre’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign aimed at protecting and empowering the girl child, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Tuesday.
“Wherever we have not done well, I will be talking to them (DMs) through video conferencing every day. Every DM will have to give me a report and anybody who has failed, it will go into his Annual Confidential Report (ACR) because I will be discussing it with the Chief Minister concerned,” she said.