The
state
of
Haryana
is
infamous
for
its
skewed
sex
ratio
of
824
females
per
1,000
males.
In
a
bid
to
highlight
this
and
promote
the
cause,
noted
actor
and
director
Satish
Kaushik,
among
others,
tried
to
make
a
difference
with
a
special
Lohri
celebration
dedicated
to
all
daughters.
Satish
Kaushik
along
with
Mahesh
Bhatt,
attended
the
celebrations
of
the
harvest
festival
to
promote
the
cause
for
the
girl
child
and
the
campaign
against
female
foetecide.
Speaking
on
the
occasion,
Mr.
Satish
said,
"The
campaign
against
female
foeticide
should
be
a
mass
movement.
I
appeal
to
all
the
villages
and
their
sarpanches
to
promote
this
cause.
I
will
personally
look
into
it
in
my
native
village
of
Dhanaunda
which
I
have
adopted.
We
look
forward
to
honour
more
sarpanches
next
year."
Haryana
Governor
Jagannath
Pahadia
said
that
every
effort
must
be
made
to
contain
the
adverse
sex
ratio
in
the
state.
He
regretted
that
despite
efforts
in
the
recent
years,
the
sex
ratio
of
girls
in
Haryana
remained
low.
Sarpanches
(village
heads)
from
23
villages
in
Haryana,
where
the
birth
rate
of
girls
was
more
than
that
of
boys,
were
specially
honoured
at
the
event.
The
festival
of
Lohri
is
celebrated
in
the
northern
sates
of
Punjab
and
Haryana
to
mark
the
end
of
the
winter
&
the
beginning
of
a
new
agricultural
season.
It
is
also
mostly
celebrated
to
mark
the
birth
of
a
boy
child
or
to
pray
for
a
boy
child.
At
the
special
celebration
'Lohri
Beti
Ke
Naam'
(Lohri
in
the
name
of
the
daughter)
organised
in
karnal
by
the
National
Integrated
Forum
of
Artistes
and
Activists
(NIFAA),
on
13th
January,
2,100
girls,
all
aged
below
one
year
and
most
in
prams,
came
with
their
mothers.