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Awareness can check female foeticide: Experts
CHAIRPERSON OF Central Social Welfare Board Rajani Patil said social awareness was imperative to eradicate female foeticide from the society. She was addressing an awareness campaign ?Save Girl? jointly organised by State?s Social Welfare Board and UNICEF at Nagar Nigam auditorium on Monday afternoon.
CHAIRPERSON OF Central Social Welfare Board Rajani Patil said social awareness was imperative to eradicate female foeticide from the society.
She was addressing an awareness campaign ‘Save Girl’ jointly organised by State’s Social Welfare Board and UNICEF at Nagar Nigam auditorium on Monday afternoon.
Expressing grave concern over the increasing cases of female foeticide, Rajani Patil said that no act or law could do anything without social awareness against this menace.
She cited some noted social workers such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwarchand Vidyasagar, Mahatma Gandhi and BR Ambedkar who fought for the welfare of women and brought respect for them by first creating awareness and then following it up with the necessary act. Director of Centre for Social Research, New Delhi, Ranjana Kumari said around one crore female foetus were aborted in India in the recent past. She criticised doctors for sex-determination tests and also expressed grave concern over poor health aid to women with about one in every five women dying due to labour pain in India. Chairperson of State Social Welfare Board, Anjana Prakash said that the sex ratio in the age group of 0 to 6 years had declined considerably. `There were 927 females per 1000 males in 1991 which declined to 916 per 1000 males in 2001 in Uttar Pradesh,’ she said.
Former state minister Shatrudh Prakash and head of social work department in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Prof. Inam Shastri were among others who addressed the gathering. Prof. Shastri said that awareness was the only way out to address the problem of female foeticide. Members of State’s Social Welfare Board, Sudha Singh welcomed the guests whereas its secretary, SL Bahari conducted the programme.
