Republic Day celebrations this year was a little different for families with infant girls across Haryana. As a part of the initiative to encourage girl child in a state with the lowest sex ratio in the country, the Haryana Education Department had sent invitations to such families for Republic Day events in their localities, where they will be seated in front rows. Invitation went to families of more than two lakh girls for events in schools in their respective villages. The flag-hoisting at the Republic Day event was also done by a village’s most educated girl. The local schools helped to identify the families with the infant girls, by looking at children corn between last December and January 2016 and had sent out the invitations accordingly.
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