CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government would promulgate an Ordinance soon to set up a Women's University named after Bhagat Phool Singh at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat district, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here on Friday.

Inaugurating a two-day all-India conference of chairpersons and secretaries of State Social Welfare Boards here, Mr. Hooda disclosed that 12,000 vacancies of teachers were being filled up of which 33 per cent had been reserved for women.

Mr. Hooda said the new university would provide higher education to women in emerging areas of Information Technology, Computer Education, Medical Sciences, Bio-Technology, Environmental Studies, Technology and Management Studies.

About the declining sex ratio and female foeticide, he said his Government had implemented several schemes to improve sex ratio and raise the socio-economic status of women and these had received wide appreciation.

While referring to the demand for 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies raised at the Conference by the Central Social Welfare Board Chairperson, Rajni Patil, he said that women living in rural areas should also get the benefit of such a reservation.

He observed that the Conference had been organized at such a time when the 11th Five Year Plan was being formulated and it was high time to introduce new schemes and re-shape the existing ones to make them more effective.

Haryana Health Minister Kartar Devi said that Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique Act was being implemented in letter and spirit.

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