Shimla: On Sunday i.e. on May 16, 2010, an official has announced that the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) has decided to create an additional seat and reserve it for single girl child in M.Phil courses, offered in the ensuing session 2010.
As per sources, Sunil Kumar Gupta, HPU Vice-Chancellor has said that now the University has also decided to reserve one supernumerary seat for single girl child in all M.Phil courses from this academic year on the pattern of postgraduate and undergraduate courses. Earlier, the university created an extra seat in graduate and postgraduate professional courses and reserved it for girls, who were the only child of their parents.
Mr Gupta has also mentioned that the main objective of reserving the seat for the girls is to check the social evil of female foeticide. As per the 2001 Census, the sex ratio in major states ranged from 861 in Haryana to 1,058 in Kerala. Himachal Pradesh recorded 968 females per 1,000 males.
