MDU institute unveils its vision of Haryana in 2020
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, December 26
The Institute of Development Studies at the Maharshi Dayanand University has made another presentation to the Planning Commission on Haryana Vision-2020. Prof Sri Bhagwan Dahiya, Director of the Institute, gave the idea of preparing Haryana’s Vision Gold-2016 as against India’s Vision Diamond-2022.

Haryana Vision-2020 includes detailed discussion on the progress and prosperity through enlarging people’s choices to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge, to have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living, while preserving it for future generations, protecting personal security and achieving equality for all women and men.

It also discusses issues of eradicating poverty and developing disadvantaged groups through raising literacy levels, improving access to health-care, ensuring maternal health, preventing malnutrition, ensuring education for every child, protecting the girl child and adolescent girl, eliminating child labour, caring for disabled children and caring for children in difficult circumstances.

The issue of empowering women includes discussion on gender sensitization through training and addressing gender inequalities in education and employment.

The issues of gender-sensitivity in health programmes and prevention of atrocities against women would also be discussed. The issues of ensuring equal opportunity for the disabled and providing social security has also been included in the vision paper.

As regards education, the vision statement ensures full literacy through providing more teachers and training, building more schools and classrooms, redesigning curricular, expanding early childhood care and education, strengthening programmes to bring dropouts back to school, focussing on specific disadvantaged groups and locations, providing non-formal education and increasing adult literacy, involving the community in increasing enrolment and improving retention, promoting education for girls, providing more options in vocational and technical education, providing more specialised courses in higher education and involving the private sector in higher education.

The Vision-2020 lays stress on providing housing for economically weaker sections, facilitating access to affordable housing for middle and lower income groups, ensuring balanced development of communities, ensuring the provision of basic services.