Project to sensitise panchayats on gender issues

Jaipur: July 15, 2010

A UNFPA supported programme on “Strengthening gender response of panchayats in Rajasthan” was launched with a call to panchayat bodies to optimally utilise their mandates and institutional resources to address the issues of maternal health and sex selection. Gender experts, academicians, demographers and development practitioners attending the inaugural function at the State Institute of Health and Family Welfare here said the socio-cultural and economic barriers “undervaluing women” should be removed to prevent female foeticide and check the declining sex ratio in population.

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