Pledge now mandatory before receiving marriage certificate

Tribune News Service

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Nawanshahr, January 29

Taking a new initiative in the district, Amit Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, introduced a novel idea as a part of the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme today.

From now onwards, every newly-married couple will have to take a pledge at the time of receiving the marriage certificate.

The Deputy Commissioner issued formal orders in this regard.

While chairing a meeting of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ and ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ today, he directed the marriage registration officers to make it mandatory to administer pledge at the time of marriage registration besides printing this pledge on the back of the marriage certificate.

After taking the pledge to save the girl child and having it printed on the marriage certificate, it will become the moral responsibility of the couple to save the girl child and be helpful to inculcate emotions in them towards the girl child, he added.

Apart from that, he also directed Amarjit Singh, District Programme Officer, to form ‘ Pink Clubs’ in schools with the help of the District Education Officer (DPO) that would work under the supervision of a mistress.

Elaborating the idea behind the formation of the clubs, he said the girls, especially in their adolescence, undergo physical changes and prefer to narrate their problems with other girls only.

He also asked the DPO to get start graffiti on school walls having a sizeable number of girl students so that the message of ‘ Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ awareness campaign could be propagated in principle.

During the deliberations to moot the proposals under the ‘Nirbhaya Fund’, a corpus fund for maintaining the safety and security of the females, he floated the idea of special women policing by providing 10 two-wheelers apart from two ambulance type vehicles to cope up with emergency call from a woman.

Similarly, a public transport system, only for women, named ‘Shaktivahini’ also proposed to start in the district. Besides, CCTV surveillance at schools for girl students and providing martial art training and pepper spray were also discussed.

Secretary DLSA CJM Parinder Singh, DSP (Hq) Gurpreet Singh Gill, Assistant Commissioners, Sarbjit Kaur and Anamjyot Kaur, DDPO, Baljit Singh Kainth, District Family Planning Officer, Dr Sukhwinder Singh, and CDPOs Amrita Singh and Savita Kumari also attended the meeting.