How can Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Yojana help prevent child marriage?

Correct answer: By increasing girls education and awareness

The direct answer is C: the scheme can help by increasing girls’ education and awareness. Education keeps a girl connected with learning, improves knowledge of rights and health, and can strengthen her ability to understand the harms of early marriage and discuss her future. Awareness can also help families learn about the importance of completing education and following legal protections. The reasoning is a contribution, not an absolute guarantee: continued schooling and awareness may delay marriage and reduce risk, especially when families, schools and authorities provide support. Option A, stopping a girl’s education, makes early marriage risk worse and removes protective knowledge. Option B, increasing child marriage, is the opposite of prevention. Option C is correct because education and awareness can change attitudes and expand alternatives. Option D, closing schools, removes access to learning and therefore cannot support prevention. Other measures may also be needed, but among these choices C is the relevant pathway. Memory cue: education keeps choices open; child marriage closes them early.