In its ongoing campaign to spread awareness about stopping female foeticide, the Haryana Government on Friday held a ‘pledge ceremony’ across the State to change the mindset of people to protect girl child.
As many as 30,000 health workers took the pledge to save the girl child at different places of Haryana under the mass campaign ‘pledge ceremony’. A spokesperson of the State Government said that the mass campaign was undertaken by the Haryana Health Department to change the mindset of people to protect girls by stopping female foeticide and also, against the practice of dowry.
He said that those who participated in the pledge taking ceremony included ANM’s, ASHA Workers, other medical, para-medical staff of Primary Health Centre’s, Community Health Centre’s, Sub-divisional hospitals or District Hospital’s and private ultrasonologists and members of IMA.
As per the data with State Health Department, the sex ratio was 871 girls per 1,000 boys till November last year, higher than 833 in 2011. However, Mahendergarh district continued to record lowest sex ratio with 756 girls per 1,000 boys.
Mewat district topped the charts with 916 girls per 1,000 boys while Panchkula district registered sex ratio of 915. Notably, in an initiative to improve the skewed sex ratio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch, ‘Beti Bacho Beti Padhao’ scheme in Haryana’s 12 districts having low sex ratio. The scheme would be launched by the Prime Minister on January 22 at Panipat.
He said that in order to promote ‘Beti Bacho Beti Padhao’ scheme, campaigns were being carried out to create awareness to change the mindset of the people towards girl child.
Apart from this, yatras would be flagged off by various Union Ministers and State Government Ministers across the State on January 17 and 18 to spread awareness about the ‘Beti Bacho Beti Padhao’ scheme.