KARNAL: To check the state's dwindling sex ratio, Karnal district has come up with an innovative idea of organizing pledge ceremonies on the 6th of every month for saving the girl child.
On the first day of the initiative on Tuesday, more than 5 lakh people from different walks of life participated in the ceremonies held across the district and took an oath to protect the girl child in family and in neighborhood. In secretariat, the oath was administrated by deputy commissioner Neelam Kasni, who urged participants not to have any bias against the girl child.
The DC had recently appealed for active participation in the ceremony, which saw an overwhelming response. Perhaps, for the first time in the country, people from all hues, including government employees, teachers, students, doctors, lawyers, law officers, farmers, businessmen and representatives of different religious organizations, among others, participated in such an endeavour.
The DC said stringent laws alone could not check female foeticide without society's participation.
"Though some villages are showing an improvement, the district has a sex ratio of 813, which needs to be rectified. The district public relation and information office has been told to rope in 'bhajan mandalis' to spread the message through street plays," the DC added.
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/5L-people-vow-against-female-foeticide/articleshow/9891506.cms
On the first day of the initiative on Tuesday, more than 5 lakh people from different walks of life participated in the ceremonies held across the district and took an oath to protect the girl child in family and in neighborhood. In secretariat, the oath was administrated by deputy commissioner Neelam Kasni, who urged participants not to have any bias against the girl child.
The DC had recently appealed for active participation in the ceremony, which saw an overwhelming response. Perhaps, for the first time in the country, people from all hues, including government employees, teachers, students, doctors, lawyers, law officers, farmers, businessmen and representatives of different religious organizations, among others, participated in such an endeavour.
The DC said stringent laws alone could not check female foeticide without society's participation.
"Though some villages are showing an improvement, the district has a sex ratio of 813, which needs to be rectified. The district public relation and information office has been told to rope in 'bhajan mandalis' to spread the message through street plays," the DC added.
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/5L-people-vow-against-female-foeticide/articleshow/9891506.cms
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