SAVE THE GIRL CHILD CAMPAIGN BY ROTARY CLUB TAJ CITY.............FIRST MEETING OF 2013-2014 WITH A SOCIAL PROBLEM

1. female feticide
www.smritiindia.org

2. The tragedy of India’s never-born girls
where have all the missing girls gone(estimate 50 million never born girls)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/globalwalkindiagirls/

3. “Laskmi bushyate Roopam
Lakshmi Bhushyate Kulam
Lakshmi Bhushyate Vidyam
Sada Lakshmi Vishishyate”
---Maharishi Agastya Krit Lakshmi Sutram

4. "Female infanticide
is the intentional
killing of baby girls
due to the
preference for
male babies and
from the low value
associated with
the birth of
females."

5. • It is the worst form of
abuse of Human rights
of a girl child.
• Women are worshipped
as 'Shakti', 'Durga' but
speaking in more
practical terms men find
it difficult to respect
women.
• Destruction of female
fetus is a clear violation
of human rights of the
child.

6. Pre-Birth Elimination of Females
An Immoral Practice
• When Girls go missing in a society.
• When a child is denied the right to life only
because she is a girl.
• Discrimination starts when a girl is in a
womb and continues till the grave.
• When a girl’s right to bloom and blossom is
nipped in the bud.
Can you sit back and ignore it ???

7.  Female Infanticide: The murder of a female infant. It occurs
often as a deliberate murder or abandonment of a young girl
or infant.
 Selective Abortion: Also called gender-selective
abortion, sex-selective abortion, or female feticide-selective
abortion. It involves the abortion of a fetus because it is a
girl. Many women from communities or cultures with a
preference for boys practice selective abortion.
The Girl Child forms
of discrimination

8.  Female Genital Cutting (FGC): The practice that involves the
removal or the alteration of the female genitalia. It is a
centuries-old practice found in many countries among people
from various religions and beliefs, most prevalent in Africa.
 Honor Killing: The practice of killing girls and women who are
perceived to have dishonored a family’s reputation by allegedly
engaging in sexual activity or other improprieties before or
outside of marriage. ‘Improper’ behavior justifies grounds for
killing. It has expanded to include transgressions, which are not
initiated by the girl, including rape and incest.
The Girl Child forms
of discrimination

9.  Currently, 60 million girls are reported as “missing” as a result of
infanticide, sex selective abortions, and neglect.
 At least 130 million girls alive today have undergone Female Genital
Mutilation, and 2 million more are at risk every year.
 It is reported that at least 5,000 women and girls are murdered
each year for “honor’s sake” by members of their own families.
 United Nation statistics, national reports and studies initiated by
non-governmental organizations repeatedly show that girls, as a
group, have lower literacy rates, receive less health care, and more
impoverished than boys.
Source: Youth Advocate Program International: www.yapi.org
Source: Youth Advocate Program International: www.yapi.org
Source: United Nations Children’s Fund: www.unicef.org
Source: Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org
The Girl Child
facts and statistics

10. The Girl Child
female infanticide
 What: The deliberate killing of a girl child.
 Who: Girl children who are born in societies
where poverty, overpopulation, and
male biases are prevalent.
 Where: In regions where poverty and
overpopulation are prevalent. It
predominantly occurs in societies
where girl children are not viewed as
economically advantageous.
 Why: Lineage, Income, Dowry, Protection,
Government

11. save the girl child
say no to selective sex selection of any
methods and say no to selective female
feticide and infanticide

12. A video made by us in AGRA
sahil fauzdar

13. INDIA
INDIA IS THE 125TH HAPPIEST
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
WHY ?
WHY NOT NO 1 OR NO 2 OR 3 ?
BECOS WE HAVE NO WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

15. Infanticide of infant girls continues to be a problem.
Laws have been passed against this practice but this
has led to more subtle yet even more cruel methods
of murder.
• DO YOU AGREE ?

16. Why save the girl child ??

17. Current status of sex ratio in India
census 2011-11

18. SEX RATIO
SEX RATIO OF A COUNTRY IS DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF
FEMALES PER 1000 MALES IN THAT SET GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA
OUR NATIONAL RATIO IS 914/1000
AND IN SOME STATES AS LOW AS 800/1000

19. What do we mean by Female Sex Ratio?
Female sex ratio commonly known
as sex ratio is the number of
females per every 1000 males in a
given place.
Where does Female Sex Ratio in
India stand in Census 2011?
The female child sex ratio is 944 girl children per every 1000
boy children of the same age group.
The overall female sex ratio has increased by 0.75 % in the
Census 2011 as compared to the previous Census of 2001.

20. Sex Ratio
India
Census 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Male 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Total Female 941 930 934 927 933 944
Girl Child
0 – 6 yr
960 964 962 945 927 914

21. Sex Ratio
Uttar Pradesh
Census 1961 Census 2011
1000 1000
U P 960 899
Agra 960 835

22. The adverse sex ratio creates
“shortage” of women and has
severe long-term implications

23. The
„shortage‟
of women
does not
lead to their
increased
value, but
to greater
restrictions
and control
placed over
them.

24. Indian social scenario
• Women suppression gender bias
• Want of only male child or atleast one male child
for various social and religeous beliefs and family
name continuation
• Female child not welcome
• Advent of ultrasound as a tool for detection of sex
• Advent of amniocentesis and cvs
• Mushrooming of various such centres offering such
services in urban cities in the late 1980’s

25. Why this is happening in India ??
• Altered sex ratio in India
• Abuse of sex determination techniques
• Want of a male child only
• Social pressures on the couples and also on
the providers
• No one complains as both parties are guilty

26. EFFECTS OF SON PREFERENCE IN INDIA
• MOST FAMILIES KEEP HAVING CHILDREN TILL THEY
GET A SON
• BENEFITS OF SONS IN INDIAN SOCIETY
1.ECONOMIC UTILITY
2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY
3.RELIGIOUS UTILITY
(DAUGHTERS ARE CONSIDERED ECONOMIC
LIABILITY,DOWRY AND SYSTEM OF HEAVY COSTS
WEDDINGS)

27. FEMALE SIBLING
• MALE CHILDREN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE
FULLY VACCINATED
• BOYS ARE BREASTFED FOR A LONGER TIME
• BOYS ARE FED MORE THAN GIRLS/AND GIRLS
ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE STUNTED IN
GROWTH
• EDUCATION TO GIRLS IS RESTRICTED

28. Reasons :
 Poverty
 Gender Discrimination
 Lack Of Education
 Traditional Practices
 Future
Speculations(Education, Marriage, Dowry, etc)

29. How did all this begin ?
• Amniocentesis test by AIIMS for genetic diagnosis a break thru in
India 1980’s
• Tests were soon commercially available
• Test abuse started for sex determination and for diagnosis of
female fetus
• A lot of hue and cry was made by NGO’S and altered sex ratio was
detected in the census 1990
• Govt committee, law drafted as pndt act, law modified as pcpndt
act…a lot of time taken for gazette notifications in states
• Many clerical and administrative and forms to be filled
• The punishment to DOCTOR was same for mistake in form filling
and actual sex determination
• A lot of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of law by law
enforcing agencies
• A lot of harrassment and no or very few people actually caught for
the crime( most cases for not filling forms correctly)
• Many NGO’s like CEHAT and others in court as PIL’S
• GOVT AND FOGSI AND IRIA NOW TAKING TO SIMPLIFY THE
REPORTING AND TO DEAL WITH THE ACTUAL CRIME

30. PC PNDT ACT
• A law was passed in 1994 prohibiting tests
that reveal the gender of a fetus prenatally
and abortions on the basis of fetal sex are
also illegal but the laws are not well
enforced.

31. SEX SELECTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES WHAT ARE THEY ?
• SEX SELECTION TECHNIQUES PRECONCEPTION
TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE PROBABILITY OF EMBRYO
BEING OF A PARTICULAR SEX (THIS IS PROHIBITED UNDER
THE ACT)
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROCEDURES AND /
OR TESTS)
USG/FETOSCOPY/AMNIOCENTESIS/CVS/BLOOD TESTS/ANY
TISSUE/FLUID OF MAN OR WOMAN BEFORE OR AFTER
CONCEPTION

32. GOVT COMMITTEES
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE
BILL PRESENTED IN LOK SABHA IN 1991
• SETTING UP OF A JOINT COMMITTEE
• REINTRODUCTION OF BILL IN 1992
• ADOPTED IN 1994 AS ACT 57 OF 1994
• AMENDMENTS 2001(32 OF 2001)
• AMENDMENT 14 OF 2003 AS PC PNDT

33. PCPNDT ACT WHAT IS THIS ?
THE PRECONCEPTION
AND PRENATAL
DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES
(PROHIBITION OF SEX
SELECTION) ACT
1994(57 OF 1994)

34. WHY THE SUDDEN INTEREST AGAIN
• CENSUS 2010-2011 SHOWS TOTAL FAILURE OF THE
LAW TO CONTROL THIS SOCIAL EVIL
• SO MORE THRUST ON SOCIAL AWARENESS
• AAMIR KHAN’S SATYA MEV JAYATE
• AMITABH BACHAN’S VIDEO FOR FOGSI
• AKSHAY KUMAR AND TWINKLE ’S RECORDED
MESSAGE FOR THIS CONFERENCE
• AND THE PRESENCE OF ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST
KAVITA RADHESHYAM AND …THE BOLD AND
BEAUTIFUL AT THIS CONFERENCE

36. Today we all doctors (FOGSI & IRIA & IFUMB)
• WE UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SERVICE
PROVIDER SAYS NO….THEN IT WILL BE A
NO
• WE KNOW SOME OF OUR CLAN ARE STILL
INDULGING IN THIS
• WE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT MAJORITY
OF SUCH PRACTICE IS BEING DONE BY NON
MEDICAL QUACKS AND SO IS THE
ABORTIONS
• WE UNDERSTAND IT’S A SOCIAL PROBLEM
AND A SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS TO BE
STARTED AGAINT THIS
• THE GOVT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE
OBJECTIVE & ETHOS OF THE LAW AND NOT
THE FORM FILLINGS ONLY,BRINGING
TECHNICALITY THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF
THE LAW HAS BEEN DEFEATED

37. FOGSI 2008
LOGO OF SAVE THE GIRL CHILD
• BHARAT JAGRUTI YATRA
• ALL OUR ENVELOPES CARRY A LINE..SAY NO TO SEX
DETERMINATION
• PCPNT SEMINARS ARRANGED
• SESSIONS IN CONFERENCES
• A DOSST(DOCTORS OPPOSING SELECTIVE SEX TESTS)
APPOINTED AT EACH FOGSI SOCIETY
• A NEWS LETTER AT EVERY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
• AN AWARD FOR THE SOCIAL WORK UNDERTAKEN
UNDER THIS THEME
• AWARENESS PROGRAMMES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

38. FOSGI’S DAUGHTER

39. FOGSI SAVE THE GIRL CHILD NEWS
LETTER

40. SMRITI MAGAZINES

41. SMRITI WHAT WE DO

42. FREE LANCE PHOTOGRAPHERS PITCH
IN WITH PICTURES OF MOTHER AND
CHILD OF INDIA AND VIDEOS
• MR SUNIL GULATI MUMBAI :MOTHERS AND
CHILDREN & GIRL CHILD PICTURES
• MR SAHIL FAUZDAR AGRA..”CHIRAIYA VIDEO”
• MANY CONTRIBUTE POETRY(DR PRATIMA)
• MANY CONTRIBUTE PAINTINGS( DR INDRANI LODH
OF KOLKATA)
• MANY MANY NGO’S OF INDIA HAVE JOINED THE
WAR AGAINST SELECTIVE SEX DETERMINATION

43. BACKGROUND PICS
SUNIL GULATI
POEMS PRATIMA
RADHAKRISHNAN AND
FRIENDS
SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES AND
POEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE

48. DR INDRANI LODH’S PAINTINGS

49. RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND
AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009

50. DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011

54. SMRITI CAR RALLY 27th feb 2011

56. DOCTORS OF RIWARI & GURGAON &
SAWANGI MEGHE DO
“NUKAAD NATAKS”

57. AMITABH BACCHAN GIVES A
MESSAGE FOR FOGSI 2008

58. akshay kumar &twinkle message for
us recorded on 30th may 2012, thnx to
dr chander lulla IFUMB

59. 2013 calender designed by
SAHIL FAUZDAR of AGRA

64. To Conclude ……. This is an epidemic which can not be
eradicated easily but YES, We can definitely bring about
a change by Raising our voice against it.
So Lets Join Our Hands And Fight Against This Injustice

66. Would you like to see women achievers in
the future?

67. THANK YOU FOR SAYING NO TO SEX DETERMINATION AND
FEMALE FETICIDE
FOGSI –IFUMB-IRIA-ISUOG INITIATIVE
PLEASE DO SIGN
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