To help girls, focus on oversight, social evils

Haryana's sex ratio at birth declines and monitoring lapses and prejudice against girl children are key issues..

Haryanas setback in its efforts to stop female foeticide holds lessons for broader national policy planning..

This newspaper reported last week that the northern state long notorious for pervasive attitudes against girl children and a skewed sex ratio recorded a slide in its January-to-June cumulative sex-ratio at birth (SRB) at 906 female births per 1,000 males, the lowest since 2016..

One, lapses in monitoring within flagship programmes such as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao reversed gains made in shutting down clinics that administer sex-determination tests, which continue to be popular despite being outlawed..

Since patriarchy fuels misplaced notions of honour, age-appropriate sex education programmes that work to dispel wrong notions about women being financial and social burdens can be helpful..

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