The Haryana Government would allocate special funds at the district level for preparing schemes and programmes for the girl child. These schemes and programmes would be designed so as to ensure their education, marriage, construction of separate toilets, and eradication of malnutrition, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal said while addressing the inaugural session of the two-day National Thematic Workshop on Woman and Child Development at Panipat.
Expressing concern over gender imbalance, Manohar lal said that this problem was not confined to some states but affected the entire country. “The state government would launch schemes on women empowerment on the occasion of International Women Day on March 8. And, efforts would be made to improve the literacy rate of women in the state which is 65.47 per cent at present,” he said. Quoting the example of Jhajjar district in Haryana, he said that the district had an overall lowest sex ratio of 782 at birth in 2011. But with the persistent efforts of the concerned departments, this figure reached 901 in December 2014.
As per the data with state government, the sex ratio was 871 girls per 1000 boys till November last year, higher than 833 girls per 1000 boys in 2011 in Haryana. Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, lt Governor of Andaman and Nicober Islands Gen (retd.) AK Singh, Secretary Women and Child Development VS Oberoi, Haryana Chief Secretary DS Dhesi, amongst others were present on the occasion.