8-Apr-2017: Haryana's sex ratio touches 950 mark for the first time in history.
Sex ratio at birth stood at 950 girls to 1,000 boys in March this year.
After the launch of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haryana accepted the challenge of improving the skewed sex ratio.
It launched a massive campaign in the state by strictly implementing Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 and running sensitisation-cum awareness campaigns promoting girl child.
An official release quoting Khattar said more than 430 FIRs have been lodged in the state under the PC-PNDT Act and the MTP Act in the last about two years.
Out of these, more than 80 FIRs were registered after inter-state raids in the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Punjab.