This document summarizes female feticide in India, the reasons it occurs, and steps that can be taken to counter it. Female feticide involves aborting a female fetus after determining its sex, and has contributed to India's declining sex ratio. It stems from a preference for sons, discrimination against girls, dowry practices, and lack of enforcement of laws against sex determination. Suggested countermeasures include education programs, effective implementation of laws banning sex determination, and government schemes providing support to girls like Ladli and Kishori Shakti Yojna.

1. An Eye Opener on Female
Feticide
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4. Then why it happens ??

5. Female Feticide
• Female feticide is aborting a female fetus after
sex determination test.
• It is the crime in the eyes of law.
• It is a major reason for the decreasing sex ratio
in India (940 v/s 1000).

6. Major Reasons
• Obsession for son.
• Discrimination against the girl child.
• Socio-economic and physical insecurity of
women.
• Evil of dowry.
• Misuse of PCPNDT Act.
• Lack of Awareness about the PCPNDT Act and
its ineffective implementation.

7. Sex Ratio Map

8. Steps to counter
• Wide spread awareness programmes on
importance and value of girl child.
• Effective implementation of Pre-
Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (PCPNDT Act).
• Cradle baby scheme
• Ladli scheme
• Kishori Shakti Yojna

9. Steps to counter
1. Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (PCPNDT) Act includes:- >
• An act to provide for the prohibition of sex
selection, before or after conception.
• For the prevention of their misuse for sex
determination leading to female feticide.
• To regulate diagnosing genetic abnormalities or
metabolic disorders or congenital abnormalities.

10. Steps to counter
1. Cradle Baby Scheme:- >
• Initiative of Tamil Nadu govt.
• Cradles are placed at locations like Hospitals,
Primary Health Centers, Orphanages and
Children Homes to receive children abandoned
by parents
• Full-fledged reception centers have been set up
at Madurai, Theni, Salem, Dindigul and
Dharmapuri districts

11. Steps to counter
2. Ladli Scheme:- >
• Initiative of Indian govt launched in 2008.
• This scheme deposits a payment in the name of
a girl child annually, which is kept as a fixed
deposit which can then be collected with
interest when the girl reaches 18 years of age.
• This scheme is for girls whose parents earn less
than Rs.1,00,000 per annum.
• Implemented well in Haryana

12. Steps to counter
3. Kishori Shakti Yojna:- >
• Initiative of Gujarat govt.
• It seeks to empower adolescent girls.
• It promote awareness of health.
• It link them to employment.
• It enable them to take charge of their lives.

13. SatyaMeva Jayate
• Sarpanch Randheer Singh of Budania village is
determined to register police cases against women
and families who go for tests to detect and abort
the girl child in Shekhawati region(Jhunjhunu,
Churu & Sikar).
• 30 children (15 boys + 15 girls) had travelled a
distance of 2,300 kms on bicycle to bring awareness
about female feticide.
• Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court Arun
Mishra has given an in-principle nod to set up a fast
track court for expediting trial in cases of female
foeticide.

14. Save the Girl Child
• Female feticide - a shame on India.
• It is a crime in eyes of law and a sin
in eyes of humanity.

15. Save the Girl Child
• Men are born of Women.
• Men are engaged & married to a woman.
• Females are not emails, plz don’t delete them

16. Save the Girl Child
Even animals don’t discriminate…

17. SAVE THE GIRL CHILD,
ELSE YOUR SON WILL
FORCED TO BE “GAY”

18. Every big journey starts
with a single step, lets
awake & fight against
female feticide

19. T H A N K S