Haryana village launches 'Selfie with daughter' contest to save girl child

 

In a unique initiative to save girl child in Haryana(an Indian State) where the sex ratio has been dismally low, a village panchayat in Jind has started a contest for clicking "selfie with daughter".Bibipur village panchayat has launched the contest in which parents from across the state have to take selfies with their daughters and send it to village Sarpanch Sunil Jaglan through social messaging app Whatsapp

The best three selfies would be awarded with trophies, certificates and cash prize, the village panchayat declared.

The selfies would be judged by a delegation of 30 women sarpanchs and aanganwadi workers who will be visiting the village from Punjab on June 19,2015

Note
Haryana is among the bottom five states in terms of sex ratio. In 2014, the sex ratio at birth was 871, a marginal increase from 868 in 2013

As of 2011, Kerala has the highest sex ratio while Haryana has the lowest sex ratio among states and Daman & Diu has the lowest among all states and territories

Rank according to 2011 Census

Rank	State	Sex Ratio 2011	Sex Ratio 2001	Sex Ratio Change 2001 to 2011
1	Kerala	1,084	1,058	+26
2	Puducherry (2011) Pondicherry (2001)	1,038	1,001	+37
3	Tamil Nadu	995	986	+9
4	Andhra Pradesh	992	978	+14
5	Chhattisgarh	991	990	+1
6	Manipur	987	978	+9
7	Meghalaya	986	975	+11
8	Odisha (2011) Orissa (2001)	978	972	+6
9	Mizoram	975	938	+37
10	Himachal Pradesh	974	970	+4
11	Karnataka	968	964	+4
12	Goa	968	960	+8
13	Uttarakhand (2011) Uttaranchal (2001)	963	964	-1
14	Tripura	961	950	+11
15	Assam	954	932	+22
16	Lakshadweep	946	947	-1
17	Jharkhand	947	941	+6
18	West Bengal	947	934	+13
19	Nagaland	931	909	+22
20	Madhya Pradesh	930	920	+10
21	Rajasthan	926	922	+4
22	Maharashtra	925	922	+3
23	Arunachal Pradesh	920	901	+19
24	Gujarat	918	921	-3
25	Bihar	916	921	-5
26	Uttar Pradesh	908	898	+10
27	Punjab	893	874	+19
28	Sikkim	889	875	+14
29	Jammu & Kashmir	883	900	-17
30	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	878	846	+32
31	Haryana	877	861	+16
32	Delhi	866	821	+45
33	Chandigarh	818	773	+45
34	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	775	811	-36
35	Daman & Diu	618	709	-91
*	Total average	943	933	+10