This article in the Making a Difference section of Outlook Magazine brings to light a pertinent issue in our country today.
Some excerpts -
… “Mubarak ho! Is baar beta hi hoga”
(Congratulations. It will be a boy this time) …This was a pronouncement that used to be heard often in ultrasound clinics in Hyderabad where women queued up either to know the gender of their unborn child or resort to sex selection techniques to guarantee a beta …
… “they believed ‘the law cannot touch us’” …
… The collector has also been instrumental in starting a campaign against female foeticide. It is a rule for every scan clinic in Hyderabad to display a poster showing that sex selection and determination is a crime. Kumar has even written a manual on understanding and implementing the PNDT Act …
Be the Change salutes this good samaritan in his localised efforts to ensure that this barbaric act does not ruin our society, once and for all.
Gender selection and discrimination of any kind is a crime. Take a stand, and report such occurrances if they come to your notice to the nearest authorities concerned.
Acknowledgements: Outlook Newsmagazine
(http://www.outlookindia.com)
