Save Girl Child - No More Infanticide

Three years ago, I had been to a town near Gurgaon (Haryana) to spend my vacations. Being a teenager, it was my hobby to roam at market and other public places. During my visit I observed a strange thing about the city - I found very few girls at these places comparing to my hometown. At that time I assumed some funny reasons that either girls of the city are too shy, or there are many restrictions on girls here, else the population of this city is short of girls.

However, it was just an assumption of a frustaued teenager who didn't found anyone at public places. But this funny perspective of mind took a severe turn when i got to know the fact that Haryana, Delhi & Chandigarh lie at the bottom of table when it comes to the female sex ratio according to census 2011. With 877, 866 and 818 girls per 1000 boys in cities mentioned above respectively, it is obvious that female sex ratio in these cities is at alarming level. Moreover, since these cities happen to be the developed cities of our country where literacy rates is higher this data sounds pathetic. One can just imagine what would be the situation at villages.

Now I am not going to talk about reasons for advent of this situation, its effects and all as this issue has been talked about much during past few days. Thanks to Amir Khan who drew our attention to the issue through Satyamev-Jayate. If something is not talked about, we seldom bother. 

I am enlisting few reasons why we need to save girl child.

>Save girl child if you want your dynasty to persist. (Though its a bit conservative thinking)

> Save them because you are in this world because of your mother. What if she too had agreed for infanticide? (an appeal to all female readers)

>Save girl child because our country need more Kalpana Chawla & Indira Gandhi.

>We Indians are crazy for bollywood stars and their lifestyle. So save girl child because Mr. Perfectionist Amir Khan says so.

In a country where a female is president, I anticipate that next time, after 9 years (i.e 2011 when next census will happen) the situation will become better. I also hope that by now you have pledged to fight against female infanticide. On that note, lets sing

O ri chiraiya, Nanhi si chiriya,
Angna mein phir aana re...


Female are not our foe. So why female foeticide.

Rohit Yadav