Interduce Sex education to enter Haryana state-run schools . ministries of human resource development, women and child development and health is set to start educating students on sex, contraceptives and natural urge in the state's government schools under Centre's National Health Mission Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram. The aim of classes on sex education in Haryana's Yamunanagar is to end the stigma around sex and prevent teenage pregnancy culture from picking momentum.
The lessons will include treating sex as a natural desire and not an equivalent of a disorder. The educational module has a target audience of class 8th to 12th and is also expected to expand to anganwadis in Haryana.Also educating studens nutrition demands of a body during adolescence, sex and reproductive health, gender violence, substance abuse.
The team members constituting representatives of state health department, WCD department and education department highlight that in some schools in Haryana, female students are attended only by male teachers, which adds to hesitation around the conversation on sex education.