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Disappearing daughters alarm Gujarat’s villages -Bharat Yagnik & Himanshu Kaushik

-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: In the age of khaps, village panchayats generally hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, especially on matters of gender. But the sarpanch of Fatehgadh in Amreli is an exception. He wants to see more daughters playing on the streets of his village. Rattled by the scarce number of girls - the village has only 50 girls against 200 boys in the 0-18 years' age bracket - sarpanch Vipul Kothiya recently summoned a meeting of all families urging them to strive for at least one girl child per family and correct the imbalance. "We first noticed very few girls playing in the village streets and an informal survey confirmed our worst fears," says Kothiya. The village has a population of 750 with a sex ratio of 752 girls per 1,000 boys. The 2011 census revealed that 20% of 18,618 villages in Gujarat have a child sex ratio of less than 800. With a child sex ratio of just 886 per 1,000 boys, the problem has gone from being an urban malaise to a rural one as well. But some village elders are trying to fight back. Babu Varu, sarpanch of Ghenspur village in Amreli, where the child sex ratio has dropped from 1,077 girls in 2001 to 421 in 2011 says, "The problem is critical. We will rope in teachers to create awareness among women. Teachers will also accompany pregnant women to hospitals to avoid any mischief." Jayanti Solanki, sarpanch of Dholasan village in Kadi, Mehsana, which has sex ratio of 576 girls, says, "We have made a practice of making couples and guests take a 'save the girl child' pledge at marriages and religious functions," says Solanki. Health commissioner PK Taneja says the awareness regarding the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Vadhavo' scheme is being spread to villages. "Health workers have been given the task of tracking every pregnant woman and reporting miscarriages to ascertain that it was not related to sex determination."