Haryana Government on Tuesday said that the sex-ratio of State has increased from 871 girls for every 1,000 boys in the year 2014 to 922 girls in 2020.
Appreciating the outstanding achievement despite various limitations due to Covid-19, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar congratulated all the Deputy Commissioners, Stakeholder Departments and Officers and staff of Health, Police, Prosecution, Women and Child Development Departments, Food Drug Administration, Civil Societies and NGOs whose commitment and dedicated efforts has helped the State to achieve the good results of increasing the sex ratio and setting an example for the other states.
Sharing the future targets, Khattar said,†We have set a target to achieve a sex ratio of 935+ during 2021 which will be accomplished by continuing the fight against female foeticide.â€
In the period of six years the State Government took numerous steps to curb the menace of female foeticide like large scale awareness programmes, formulating Teams to identify Centres indulging in illegal sex-determination of foetus and illegal abortions and registering FIRs against the offenders. Other than incentives to those sharing information about violations of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) PNDT Act and conducting sting operations along with inter-state and intra-state raids.
