Activists to adopt 2 Haryana villages having worst sex ratio

CHANDIGARH: An organization set up by residents of Jind district has decided to adopt two villages from any part of Haryana, which have the worst sex ratio, to develop gender-friendly atmosphere there.
The Prayog Foundation constituted to work for women empowerment, gender sensitivity and to create awareness against sexual harassment incidents had been set up few months back by a group of social activists, women activists and professionals.The foundation has started looking for villages which have lowest sex ratio to select two of them to initiate the campaign. The group aims to significantly improve sex ratio in the selected villages.
The foundation wants to adopt the practices which have been adopted by village Bibipur of the district where villagers want to call it as "The Women's World". According to the Bibipur village panchayat, the child sex ratio in the village has improved to 890:1,000 in 2014, which was just 569 in the age group of 0-1 year in 2012. The village has already won awards worth Rs 1.5 crore from the Centre and the state government for gender sensitivity.
"Only MPs and MLAs cannot adopt all villages. So, we took it as our responsibility to take care of at least two villages to create gender friendly atmosphere there by running awareness campaigns," said Jogender Singh, a school lecture and member of the foundation from Khanda Kheri village of the district.
A woman activist from Bibipur and another member of the foundation Ritu Jaglan said that they would motivate women and girls from the selected villages to act as watchdogs to stop sex selection and female feoticide. "We would even try to give incentives to such volunteers to keep an eye on pregnant women already having a girl child," she added. A recent survey in Rohtak district has shown drastic fall in the child sex ratio in cases of second delivery. "We would also encourage woman to set up a gram sabha on the pattern of Bibipur," Jaglan maintained.
Strategy to improve sex ratio
Pregnant women already having a girl child would be monitor silently
Sensitization by showing videos
Interaction of villagers with famous women personalities
Competitive exams of women at village level