As imparting ‘quality education’ and achieving ‘gender equality’ become essential policy objectives enlisted in the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the transnationally acclaimed developmental rhetoric of “investing in girls” is taking unanticipated turns in the Global South. Through a critique of the hypervisibility of the slogan of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save and Educate the Girl Child), this chapter will probe into the gendered coloniality of the developmental discourse of girl empowerment. Building upon the works of postcolonial and decolonial feminists, this chapter will address the following questions—What makes the “girl-child” a global subject of neoliberal development? How does the girl-child reflect conflicting aspects of girlhood in postcolonial contexts? Why is the trope of girl empowerment problematic? A closer look at the language of girl empowerment reveals the insidiously counterintuitive doublespeak that characterizes the girl-child found in educational policies aimed at addressing gender disparity within India.