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Stillborn scheme -TK Rajalakshmi

-Frontline.in An audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India comes down heavily on the Haryana government for its lax implementation of the Beti Bachao scheme. NOTWITHSTANDING the tall claims made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the social and economic sectors (for the year ending 2016) of the Haryana government has revealed huge gaps...

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Haryana witnesses highest ever increase in sex-ratio --- 914 girls on 1000 boys -Ajay Sura

-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: For the first time, Haryana claimed to have logged the highest ever sex ratio of 914 girls against 1,000 boys in 2017. It was 900 in 2016 and 876 in 2015. As per the date, released by the state government on Saturday, out of the 5,09,290 children born in the state from January to December 2017, there were 2, 66,064 boys and 2,43,226 girls witnessing the improvement...

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Discrimination against girl child still continues in Odisha -Hemanta Pradhan

-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: A newborn baby girl was found alive on Saturday morning after being buried in a manure heap at Shyamsundarpur village in Jajpur district. This incident stunned the people of the state. Child rights activists said the state needs to do more campaigns to save the girl children. Campaign Against Child Labour state convener Sudhir Kumar Sabat said the state government claims that it has sealed nursing homes...

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Minister’s sex determination proposal: Just how bad is the idea? -Oommen C Kurian

-Observer Research Foundation It is not often discussed in India that there was a time, not too far into the past, when the doctors from the famous All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performed and promoted sex-selective abortions as an effective and ethical method to address India’s population problem. Some of them even suggested that “the couple keeps on reproducing just to have a son”, and prenatal determination of sex...

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Sex determination: Answer this -Sabu M George

-The Indian Express If the government does not have the will to regulate 55,000 pre-natal diagnostic clinics, how will it track 29 million pregnancies annually? I was inspired by Maneka Gandhi’s struggle to get back her passport (impounded by the Janata Party government) as an IIT student in 1977. Her Supreme Court case led to a landmark judgment on personal liberty. Subsequently Gandhi filed petitions in courts to protect animal rights....

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