Sunday, April 17, 2011

India's disappearing Girls


"BETTER 500 NOW THAN 50000 LATER"
Can u guess what this caption is about?It's an add suggesting to prospective parents that spending Rs.500 now on a test to confirm the foetus was better than spending many times more for a dowry later.These kinds of adds were very common those days when there was no legislation in place banning abortions of female foetus.Thanks to the efforts of group of activists whose campaign against the use of medical technology for sex detection & selection which culminated in making the law banning these tests.
BUT HAS THAT REALLY PREVENTED THE FEMALE FOETICIDE???
Better u check this....
I was shocked to read this in today's morning paper.
Though the sex ratio has gradually crept up from933 women to 1000 men in 2001 to 940 women to 1000 men in 2011,the preliminary figures released by Census office for 2011 shows some shocking facts...In the age group of 0-6,the no. of girls to every 1000 boys is just 914,even lower than the 927 of 2001 census!!!Why has this happened???
India!!! Atleast Wake Up now!!!
Save our girl child.Are u not seeing the ill effects of increasing gap between male to female sex ratio!?Just count how many of our male cousins are still bachelors unable to find a suitable girl?This is just one small example.

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