The decline has been particularly sharp in the Union Territories. For instance in Nicobar, the Child Sex Ratio fell from 985 females per 1000 makes in 2014-15 to 839 in 2016-17. In Puducherry's Yanam, it fell from 1107 in 2014-15 to 976. The government has given Rs 55 crore and Rs 46 crore to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry respectively.

Experts say that the limited success of the scheme is largely due to the fact that the government isn't releasing the funds effectively and that it is spending too much on publicity instead of concrete interventions in the education and health sectors.

According to economist Mitali Nikore, "Only a small proportion of the funds, about 5 percent each, is allocated for education and health interventions".

"Further, another 5% is allocated for training and capacity building at the district level, with training at the central level receiving only 1%," she further wrote in a blog in The Times of India.

She terms the pattern of expenditure, "highly skewed towards just one pillar of the scheme" – publicity.

According to her, the government should have instead made provisions for "strengthening long term, measurable outcomes related to education and health envisaged under the scheme".

So while the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme might have generated a lot of buzz for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it's success hasn't quite been up to the mark.