Female Foeticide Is A Bane!

It has been witnessed that the number of boys in comparison of girls is higher especially in parts of Haryana. Eligible Jatt boys from the region of Haryana travel almost 3,000 km across the country to find a bride for them. With increasing no. of fewer girls in Haryana, they are now seeking brides from as far away as Kerala. This situation has not occurred overnight neither the girls have not vanished suddenly. Decades of sex determination test and female foeticide has acquired genocide proportions that are finally catching up with the states of India.
The decline in the child gender ratio in India has been evident by comparing all the census figures. In the year 1991, the figure represented 947 girls to the total of 1000 boys. Ten years later it was known that the numbers fallen to 927 girls for the total of 1000 boys.
Since year 1991, around 80% of districts in India recorded a declining gender ratio among which the state of Punjab become the worst.
Other states like Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have registered more than 50 points decline in the child gender ratio in the period.
According to the PCPNDT Act 1994 (Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act) which was modified in 2003, it’s known that it targets the medical profession and the ‘supply side’ of the practice of sex selection. However the non implementation of this Act has been one of the biggest failing of this campaign against selection between boys and girls.
Lakhanpal which is a small village in Punjab has shown excellent records and has turned the tide of male births for the first ever time. In a state which incorporates the lowest sex ratio in the country, the village has boasted 1,400 girls for every total 1000 boys.
Female foeticide is not less than a bane in our society. We as youth must fight against it as both the genders and in fact every gender has its own importance and we as human beings have no rights to kill anybody on basis of gender.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: http://unicef.in/PressReleases/227/Female-foeticide-in-India