Save the girl child in India

Amniocentesis started in India in 1974 to detect fetal abnormalities.
These tests were used to detect gender for the first time in 1979 in
Amritsar, Punjab. Later the test was stopped by the Indian Council of
Medical Research but it was too late.
The benefits of these tests were leaked out and people started using it
as an instrument for killing an innocent and unborn girl child.  Many of
the traditional women organizations also took up cudgels to stop this
illegal practice but all failed and with the passage of time these tests
became a major contributor to bias against a girl child.


Female feticide and infanticide is not the only issues with a girl
child in India. At every stage of life she is discriminated and neglected for
basic nutrition, education and living standard. When she was in the
womb, she was forced to miss the moment when she was supposed to enter
the world. At the time of birth her relatives pulled her back and wrung
her neck. After killing her she was thrown into a trash can.


During childhood, her brother was loaded with new shoes, dresses and
books to learn while she was gifted a broom, a wiper and lots of tears.
In her teenage, she missed tasty delicious food to eat and got only the
crumbs. During her college days, she was forced to get married, a stage
where illiteracy, lack of education resulted in high fertility rate,
aggravating the condition of females in the country. Again if this
female gives birth to a girl child, the journey begins once again. She
missed all roses of life and was finally fitted to a graveyard. That’s
where she got peace of mind.


The nation of mothers still follows a culture where people idolizes son
and mourns daughters. UN figures out that about 750,000 girls are
aborted every year in India. Abortion rates are increasing in almost 80%
of the India states, mainly Punjab and Haryana. These two states have
the highest number of abortions every year. If the practice continues,
then no longer a day will come when Mother India will have no mothers,
potentially, no life.


हम सभी भारत पर गर्व नागरिक हैं. समय की जरूरत के लिए अपनी जिम्मेदारियों का एहसास है और इस बुराई अपराध को रोकना है. हम लड़कियों के क्रूर और सामूहिक हत्या का  अवांछनीय व्यवहार पर अंकुश लगाने के लिए क्या कर सकते हैं? एक निर्धारित संकल्प करके  दीपक और प्रकाश चिंगारी आरंभ कर सकते हैं, दुनिया को दिखाना है कि हम सब महान मदर इंडिया का हिस्सा हैं

Re-narration by Amrapali in Hindi targeting Indian Ground, Barbados for this web page