Concerned over deteriorating gender ratio in Rewari district, Indira Gandhi University (IGU), Meerpur here has launched a special campaign to motivate especially the rustic women against female foeticide.
It has also set up a women cell for the purpose which would carry out the drive across the district with the help of girl students and social activists.The campaign was launched by Dr Shashi Kalia, a retired professor, from Meerpur village by inaugurating a workshop namely ‘Beti Bachao’ over there.During the workshop, the village women were motivated to ensure their significant contribution to root out the female foeticide from the society by making them aware about adverse effect of worsening sex ratio on the next generation, said Prof Maya Malik, Dean Student Welfare (DSW), of the varsity.
She maintained imbalanced gender ratio in South Haryana had made the university authorities to work in this direction too.“Since the female foeticide is the root-cause behind the alarming gap in male and female ratio hence under the campaign, we are educating the women about adverse effect of gender imbalance so that they could come forward to eliminate this social evil” said Maya.“The women will be educated against female foeticide by showing short films. Nukkad Naatak, workshop and direct interaction with the women at their homes will be other features of the campaign,” said Maya, adding that besides female foeticide, the women would also be made aware about their fundamental rights.
Notably, Rewari district has 856 girls against 1000 boys which expose the orthodox mentality of the locals against the female child. To bring a change in the denizen’s frame of mind, the district authorities recently celebrated the birthday of over 500 female children at village level across the district, who were born in the month of December in 2012 and 2013.