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Programmes mark International Women?s Day
VARIOUS PROGRAMMES, seminars and discussions were organised here to mark the International Women?s Day on Wednesday by different organisations. Terming foeticide as a henious crime against humanity, Dr Anju Mishra and Dr Malvika stressed the need of awareness among the women to check the tendency.
VARIOUS PROGRAMMES, seminars and discussions were organised here to mark the International Women’s Day on Wednesday by different organisations. Terming foeticide as a henious crime against humanity, Dr Anju Mishra and Dr Malvika stressed the need of awareness among the women to check the tendency.
They were delivering their views at a seminar ‘Increasing foeticides and those responsible for it’ at DDU Gorakhpur University. Presiding over the seminar Dr Pratibha Khanna said, it is an irony that not a single person had been penalised under the law for killing the girl child in the womb. Dr Dharmendra Dutt Tiwari said, this tendency had increased the imbalance between the ratio of male and female population.
He said at least 10 lakh girls were not allowed to come to life.
Dr Anju Mishra said that with the growing literacy rate in women the problem had increased. She said ultrasound was invented to check the disability but it was being misused and had become a curse for the unborn girl child. She stressed the need to change the mindset regarding girls in the society.
Expressing his views on this occasion, Dr Rekha Chaturvedi said, though women gave birth to the men but they were being subjected to step-motherly treatment by the society. Prof Prakash Chandra Shukla said the decrease in girl population could assume a serious dimension.
Dr Sushma, Dr Purnima Satya Dev called upon the women to come forward and to fight against the malpractice, which has, became a fashion for the society.
Dr Sumitra Singh, Dr Sunita Moore, Dr BB Upadhyaya and others demanded more teeth to check the killing of the girlchild in the womb.
In another programme organised at the divisional office of the LIC, chief guest Ali Ahmad said that awareness regarding Fundamental Rights among the women was the need of the hour. Gramin Vikas Sansthan also organised a programme on women empowerment in eastern UP. They said that women had to play a vital role in bringing change in mindset of the people regarding women.