Wednesday, June 8, 2011

India tries cash incentives to save its girls

Chief District Health Officer, Dr. N.�J. Patel, left,�and senior member of Manav Sewa Education Charitable Trust, Manubhai Barot, right,�hold a string of firecrackers as they interact with mothers and daughters during the launch of the 'Greet the Girl Child' campaign at the village Goraj, Sanand Taluka of Ahmedabad district, on May 11. The 'Greet the Girl Child' campaign is a joint venture between the Ahmedabad District Health Department and the Manav Sewa Education Charitable Trust in which any girl child born in Sanand Taluka will be greeted with the bursting of crackers by the villagers in an attempt to equally balance the ratio of both baby boys and baby girls.Christian Science Monitor:� Selective abortion has intensified amid the pressure to have boys in India. Now the federal and state governments are trying cash incentives to persuade Indians not to abort females.




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