DDC Rajouri reviews BBBP implementation

RAJOURI: District Development Commissioner Rajouri Mohammad Aijaz Asad today convened a meeting of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) District Level Task Force (DLTF) here today at conference hall of DDC office, Rajouri.
The DDC asked the Social Welfare, Health & Education departments and other concerned departments to put in a collaborated effort to ensure that the objectives of the scheme are realized to the fullest.
He stressed on organizing more camps and workshops for masses and functionaries of several departments to sensitize them on the issue of Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and value of girl child & her education.
He further called for strengthening the linkages with Panchayats, Anganwadi Centres and PHCs at the district as well as on block level.
Meritorious girls shall be felicitated to encourage them and girl child achievers shall be nominated as BBBP ambassadors, he maintained, adding that, Heath, Education, and Rural Development department have to play an imperative role in making this programme a grand success.
The DDC directed the health officials to strictly implement PC&PNDT Act in the district in letter and spirit and those who inform about this should be rewarded. Sex determination of the foetus is a major social evil and all those involved in such activities should be punished, he added.
He also sought a detailed report from CMO about the under 05 years of age mortality rate and institutional delivery for the year 2018-19.
Some of the completed works in panchayat should be got inaugurated by parents of the newly born girl child, the DDC instructed RDD.
The meeting was attended by SSP Rajouri, Chief Planning Officer , Chief Medical Officer , District Programme Officer, Chief Education Officer ,District Panchayat Officer, District Social welfare officer and BMOs.