The Haryana Government has decided to extend the benefit of certain schemes applicable to two-girl child in a family to the third as well. This is part of measures to improve the sex ratio in the State which ranks among the worst on this social indicator in the country
The State, which was chosen for the launch of the nationwide Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January, has approved a scheme for widening the scope of some of the schemes for workers of the Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board and the Labour Welfare Board by extending the benefits to up to three female children.
An official spokesman said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has approved the scheme. While earlier under maternity benefit, a financial assistance of Rs.36,000 was provided to female workers on the birth of up to two children, including nutritional supplement of Rs.6,000, the scheme has now been extended to cover up to three girls.
The scheme would also cover the education of these girls. Now three female children of workers would be entitled to get financial assistance of Rs.3,000 to Rs.15,000 as education scholarship from Class I onwards. The education scholarship would also be provided to up to two male children of workers.
Likewise, financial assistance of Rs.2,000 to Rs.3,000 would be given to three female children of workers for purchase of school uniform, books and notebooks from first to eighth classes.
As part of the provision of welfare benefits up to the time of the marriage of the girl child, an assistance of Rs.51,000 would now be provided as ‘Kanyadaan’ on the marriage of three daughters of registered workers instead of two daughters covered earlier.
In Haryana, as per the Census 2011, the sex ratio stood at 877 women to every 1000 women, which was the lowest among the States.
