Haryana Minister for Women & Child Development, Kavita Jain on Wednesday said that the sex ratio in the State has shown a remarkable improvement because of a holistic approach adopted by the Department to check decreasing ratio of girl child.
The State has recorded the sex ratio of 914 girls per 1,000 boys in 2018.
The Minister, while addressing the participants at the orientation workshop on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign organised at Panjab University said that drama, theatre and cultural troupes have a significant role play in promoting the campaign at grassroot level.
The workshop was organized by Regional Outreach Bureau (ROB) Chandigarh, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in association with Union Ministry of Women & Child Development.
She said the ambitious programme of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao which was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Panipat (Haryana) on January 22, 2015 aimed at survival and security of the girl child.
This programme was implemented in a mission mode in Haryana to provide a respectable status to the women especially the girls in our society, Jain said.
According to the census 2011, Haryana was the worst performing state in regard to sex ratio which stood at 879 against national average of 943 while the child sex ratio (0-6 years) stood at 834 females per 1000 males against the national average of 919. She informed that today Haryana has become a fore runner in the field of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao as it has bagged four important awards at the national level, which are being awarded to the state on the girl child day this month..
The workshop was a part of special campaign on the theme of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ to be launched shortly through live performing arts including Folk Dance, Music, Nukkad Natak and Puppet Shows. The objective of the workshop was to educate and sensitize the registered cultural troupes about the different issues and flagship schemes of the Government of India concerning the welfare of girl child.