Telangana’s Haridaspur celebrates girl child’s birth, secures future with SSY accounts

Sangareddy: Haridaspur Gram Panchayath in Kondapur Mandal, which was in news for their work in supporting the girl children, has got a rare honour from the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare of the Telangana government.

To mark International Women’s Day, the government has presented Rs one lakh cash prize to the Gram Panchayat to boost their efforts in supporting the parents of the girl children. Sarpanch of the village MD Shafi and Secretary Rohit Kulkarni have received the cheque from the hands of Minister Satyavathi Rathod during a programme organised on the eve of International Women’s day in Ravindra Bharathi on Tuesday.

Haridaspur has started opening Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) accounts on the names of girl children in the village by paying the first five installments (RS 1,000 per girl child) since January 2020. The Panchayat led by Sarpanch MD Shafi and Secretary Rohit Kulkarni have opened SSY accounts on the name of 85 girl children so far.Apart from that, the Gram Panchayat illuminates the Panchayat buildings whenever a woman gives birth to girl children in the village.

The Panchayat will felicitate the mothers of girl children and distributes sweets to them besides opening the SSY accounts, which will give financial security to the girl children. Following the footsteps of Haridaspur, several villages opened SSY accounts in the name of girl children in the Sangareddy district. The efforts drew state and national level attention from cutting across the sections.Speaking to Telangana Today Secretary Kulkarni said that such honours will motivate them to take more such works in the future. The entire village has erupted in celebration with the honour.