Bhubaneswar, Aug 23: The Odisha Government will launch an awareness drive next month in three districts where the child sex ratio is at an ‘alarmingly’ low level.
The programme named Biju Kanya Ratna scheme with the tagline ‘Our Girls, Our Strength’, would be piloted by the state women and child development department. The three-year project would cost the state Rs 3.5 crore. Odisha State Resource Centre for Women, which would be the nodal agency for the scheme, also plans to rope in role models like Olympian Dutee Chand and Srabani Nanda for the programme.
