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Tuesday March 02 2021
Teenage mothers with their babies in Teobia Village, Kole District, on November 16 last year. Thousands of school girls across the country will not return to school after getting pregnant or married during the Covid-19 lockdown. PHOTO | FILE
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Policy gaps. Child rights activists said Uganda has a vast number of laws, policies and programmes and if put in practice, they would effectively end child marriage.
Mr Gerald Baale, the Kamwenge senior probation and social welfare officer, noted that despite the many laws and policies in place, the country continues experiencing significant sexual and reproductive health challenges such as high cases of teenage pregnancy and early marriages in schools. This, he said, is due to poor implementation of the laws and policies.
As told to Parliament (February 9, 2021): Rs 171,581 is avg debt per cultivator household in Kerala
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Fund use low in Odisha despite declining sex ratio
The districts included Nayagarh, Dhenkanal, Angul, Ganjam, Cuttack, Khurda, Deogarh, Sundargarh, Sambalpur Kendrapara, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Bhadrak, Balasore and Kalahandi.
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The SRB has also declined in two other large states, Bihar and Karnataka, by 19 and eight points. (Representational Photo | PTI) By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Odisha is among three large states where the sex ratio at birth (SRB) has declined when it showed improvement at the national level, the utilisation of funds by the State has been abysmally low, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
NEW DELHI: There has been an improvement of 16 points in sex ratio at birth from 918 girls per 1000 boys in 2014-15 to 934 girls per 1000 boys in 2019-20, the ministry of women and child development said on Saturday.
Attributing the improvement to awareness and sensitisation efforts under the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme launched in January 2015, the government pointed out that out of 640 districts covered under the scheme, 422 showed improvement in sex ratio at birth (SRB).
The WCD ministry issued the statement to mark the National Girl Child Day on Sunday. The ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme was launched by the Centre on January 22 in 2015 at Panipat in Haryana with the objective of bringing behavioural change in the society towards the rights of girl child.