BIRGUNG: Province-2 is set to launch the ‘Daughter Insurance Program’ as part of ‘Save Daughters, Educate Daughters’ campaign. Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, chief district officer of Parsa, informed that that the province government had allocated around Rs 890 million for the campaign in the Fiscal Year 2018/19.
The province-2 government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prabhu Bank for the daughter insurance program. The first phase of the campaign includes cycle distribution, construction of girl-friendly toilets in community schools and awareness raising activities. The target is to distribute cycles to 4,000 girl students of all eight districts of the province-2.
The campaign is taken as an important measure to avert several anomalies pervasive in the Province-2 such as discrimination between sons and daughters, dowry system and female infanticide.
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