Villagers display daughters’ names on house plaques

Haryana Social Aspects of state

04-Mar-21

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In a move to promote the birth of a girl child and to discourage female foeticide, the Kaithal administration, under the “Meri Beti, Meri Pehchan” campaign, has started a campaign of putting up house plaques bearing names of their daughters.
The initiative has been started under a week-long special campaign dedicated to the “Naari Shakti Utsav” to mark the International Women’s Day.
So far, the administration has identified around 400 families based on the criteria that the family should have two girls and had adopted family planning measures.
The campaign has been initiated under the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ initiative to promote the girl child in Kaithal district.
The step had been taken to break the stereotype of considering the girl child as a burden. The ‘Meri Beti, Meri Pehchan’ campaign will help in improving the sex ratio at birth in the area.
The “Nari Shakti Utsav” will be observed till March 8, under which several other programmes will also be initiated.
On March 2, a programme “Khawaab: Udne do re” will be organised in schools and colleges where conversation about aspirations of young women will be discussed.
On March 3, “Pinjra tod: Ek vartalaap mahila sashaktikaran ki or” would be held, under which a discussion on socio-economic empowerment of women will be conducted at Panchayat Bhawan.
While, on March 4, a programme “Honsle: Prevention of crime against women” would be organised, under which a workshop on crime against women child marriage and gender equality would be organised at EVM Warehouse.
Similarly, on March 5, a programme “Udaan: Celebrating womanhood” would be organised at Community Centre in Sector 19, in which women warriors would be honoured, said Gupta.
A programme to promote sports activities among women namely “Khel khel mei: Sankalp se siddhi ki or” would be organised on March 6 at Jaat Ground.
On March 8 i.e. International Women’s Day, a programme will be organised at RKSD College, in which six-month strategy on “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” will be launched.