With sex ratio in Haryana touching the mark of 938 girls per 1,000 boys in February, Chief Minister Manohar lal has congratulated teams of all districts for their commendable performance in this regard.
Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Rakesh Gupta informed this while interacting with officers of all districts through video conferencing, at Kurukshetra.
He directed the officers of Health Department to monitor the situation and make coordinated efforts to achieve further improvement in the sex ratio. He also directed the protection officers of integrated child development services to carry out extensive promotion and publicity activities under the ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ programme.
Gupta said that all possible efforts would have to be made to achieve the vision of the Chief Minister to provide 24-hour power supply in the state in the next two years. He directed the officers of power utilities to ensure round-the-clock power supply in the State at the earliest.
He also asked the Superintending Engineer of Ambala to make efforts to provide 24-hour power supply in the district by August 15 and after that efforts would be made to extend the service in all districts. He directed the officers to ensure that there were no B-Grade or C-Grade feeders and all feeders should be upgraded to A-Grade at the earliest.