This document discusses the issue of declining sex ratios and lack of value for the girl child in India. It notes that India's child sex ratio has declined to 914 girls per 1000 boys, and there are over 200 million illiterate women. Female feticide, the abortion of female fetuses, has contributed to this issue due to the societal preference for sons and burden of dowry. The document outlines the objectives of promoting girls' education and survival, and calls for government programs, stricter laws against feticide and dowry deaths, and raising awareness of girls' equal status and importance.

1. SAVE GIRL CHILD IN INDIA!!
“ Beti Bachao Beti Padhao”

2. GROUP MEMBERS
 Ahana Barh. (ECE2015/0)
 Joydeep Ganguly.(ECE2015/
 Subhranil Bera.(ECE2015/
 Somit Samanto.(ECE2015/058)

3. Why This discussion?
 India has made enormous progress in every sphere
.Yet Indian mentality towards a girl child hasn’t changed
much.
 India’s child sex ratio (CSR) has been steadily
declining for decades and, according to the Census of
2011, has reached 914 girls for every 1,000 boys (0 to
6 years).
 In India, there are over 200 million illiterate women and
75 million malnourished children of which 75% are girls
.

4. Female Foeticide
 It is defined as aborting a female foetus after
sex determination test.
 Ultra-sonography and Foetoscopy helps
determine abnormalities in the fetus. But it is
misused to find out sex of the fetus and
abortion is done if it is a girl.
 The practice has been followed in India for
ages, a country that once described its
women as godessess.
 For this reason, Indian women will soon get
extinct.

5. Reasons
 Menace of dowry
 Fear of loss of face in local community
 Desire to keep the wealth with in the family,
through sons
 Fear of dependence of the girl on the family,
for life
 Attempt to control family size
 Wish to appease Gods in times of crisis

6. Consequences of Female
Foeticide
 Decrease in the female population.
 Adverse effect on women's health physically ,
mentally and emotionally.
 Women are abused and sexually exploited.
 Leads to women trafficking . Women are kidnapped
, bought and sold for marriage.
 Suicide rates in women will increase .

7. Sex ratio in india
 Sex ratio is defined as the number of females
per thousand males.
 In India the sex ratio is not in favour of
females.
 Female foeticide in India increased by 49.2%.
 Sex ratio in India, 2011 is 940 females per
1000 of males.
 Estimated that 50 million girls and women are
‘missing’ from India’s population because of
termination of the female foetus.

8. Sex Ratio: 0-6 years

9. Reasons for declining sex ratio
 Female Infanticide: The murder of a female infant. It occurs
often as a deliberate murder or abandonment of a young girl
or infant.
 Peoples’ Perception: People in India consider girls as
burden.
 Selective Abortion: Also called gender-selective abortion,
sex-selective abortion, or female foeticide-selective abortion.
It involves the abortion of a foetus because it is a girl.
 Discrimination: Girls arediscriminated by not being allow
to study.
 Household: Girls are only consider to do household activites
so, they are denied from getting education.
 Lack Of Facilities: There are not proper facilities such as
lack of sanitation and infrastructure, transport facilities, etc.

11. OBJECTIVES
• To promote primary education among the economically
underprivileged children.
• Prevent gender based sex selective elimination.
• Ensure survival & protection of the girl child.
• Ensure education of the girl child.
• To reduce malnutrition through nutritional supplements.
• To work for uplifting poor rural/village children’s for their
overall development.
• To promote eco-friendly living.

12. Girl’s Education in india
 India’s present literacy rate is 74.04% which is below
than the world’s average literacy rate i.e. 84%.
 At present, India is the largest ill-literate populated
country in the world.
 In India, there is a gender inequality among the literacy
rates.
 Literacy rate among Men is 82.14%, whereas among
Women its 65.46%.

13. Level of education of girls in
india

14. Other programs launched by
Government
 Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (Girl Child Prosperity Scheme)
The scheme primarily ensures equitable share to agirl child in
resources and savings of a family in which she is generally
discriminated as against a male child
 Sabla or Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of
Adolescent Girls
Skill Development Empowering adolescent girls (Age) of 11–18
years with focus on out-of-school girls by improvement in their
nutritional and health status.
 Priyadarshini
Priyadarshini, initiated in April 2011, is a programme that offers
women in seven districts access to self-help groups.

15. What should we do?
 A determined drive to aware the general public about the
importance of bringing up the girl child and giving her
equal status .Media can play a big role in this.
 Stringent measures to curb selective abortions and dowry
deaths and the practice of taking dowry .
 Being a parent, they should treat their kids equally and lay
equal emphasis their health and education.
 A little amount of care , a handful of warmth , a heart full of
love for a girl child can make a difference .

16. What government
should do?
 Strict rules should be allotted to the doctors in view of
Female feticide.
 Punishment should be given for death of a girl child
even if they are her parents.
 Protecting the girl child should be one of their scheme.
 Ultra scan test should be banned all over INDIA.

17. CONCLUSION
A FAMILY WITHOUT
WOMEN IS A
SOUL LESS BODY
“SAVE GIRL CHILD”