In memory of behram anklesaria who left us on 30th may

save the girl child

say no to selective sex selection of any methods and say no to selective female

feticide and infanticide

INTRODUCTION

ONE LINE & SIGN FROM EACH OF YOU ON THIS WEALTH ON THE POSTER OUTSIDE

INDIA

INDIA IS THE 125TH HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

WHY ? WHY NOT NO 1 OR NO 2 OR 3 ?

BECOS WE HAVE NO WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

A video made by us in AGRAsahil fauzdar

Infanticide of infant girls continues to be a problem. Laws have been passed against this practice but this has led to more subtle yet even more cruel methods

of murder.

• DO YOU AGREE ?

Why save the girl child ??

• Altered sex ratio in India• Abuse of sex determination techniques• Want of a male child only• Social pressures on the couples and also on

the providers• No one complains as both parties are guilty

Current status of sex ratio in Indiacensus 2011-11

SEX RATIO SEX RATIO OF A COUNTRY IS DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF

FEMALES PER 1000 MALES IN THAT SET GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

OUR NATIONAL RATIO IS 914/1000AND IN SOME STATES AS LOW AS 800/1000

Indian social scenario

• Women suppression gender bias• Want of only male child or atleast one male child

for various social and religeous beliefs and family name continuation

• Female child not welcome• Advent of ultrasound as a tool for detection of sex• Advent of amniocentesis and cvs • Mushrooming of various such centres offering such

services in urban cities in the late 1980’s

How did all this begin ?• Amniocentesis test by AIIMS for genetic diagnosis a break thru in India

1980’s• Tests were soon commercially available • Test abuse started for sex determination and for diagnosis of female

fetus• A lot of hue and cry was made by NGO’S and altered sex ratio was

detected in the census 1990• Govt committee, law drafted as pndt act, law modified as pcpndt act…a

lot of time taken for gazette notifications in states• Many clerical and administrative and forms to be filled• The punishment to DOCTOR was same for mistake in form filling and

actual sex determination• A lot of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of law by law enforcing

agencies• A lot of harrassment and no or very few people actually caught for the

crime( most cases for not filling forms correctly)• Many NGO’s like CEHAT and others in court as PIL’S• GOVT AND FOGSI AND IRIA NOW TAKING TO SIMPLIFY THE REPORTING

AND TO DEAL WITH THE ACTUAL CRIME

PC PNDT ACT

• A law was passed in 1994 prohibiting tests that reveal the gender of a fetus prenatally and abortions on the basis of fetal sex are also illegal but the laws are not well enforced.

EFFECTS OF SON PREFERENCE IN INDIA

• MOST FAMILIES KEEP HAVING CHILDREN TILL THEY GET A SON

• BENEFITS OF SONS IN INDIAN SOCIETY1.ECONOMIC UTILITY2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY3.RELIGIOUS UTILITY(DAUGHTERS ARE CONSIDERED ECONOMIC

LIABILITY,DOWRY AND SYSTEM OF HEAVY COSTS WEDDINGS)

FEMALE SIBLING

• MALE CHILDREN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE FULLY VACCINATED

• BOYS ARE BREASTFED FOR A LONGER TIME• BOYS ARE FED MORE THAN GIRLS/AND GIRLS

ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE STUNTED IN GROWTH

• EDUCATION TO GIRLS IS RESTRICTED

INDIA SEX RATIOS

• ALARMING IN PUNJAB AND HARYANA and DELHI

• ABOUT 800/1000 AND 773/1000

• UP 852/1000• AGRA 852/1000(IMPROVED

TO 920/1000)• AZAMGARH 1007/1000• KERALA HAS A HEALTHY

RATIO OF 980/1000

WHAT CAN BE DONE ?

• IS SEX SELECTION JUSTIFIED ?

• SHOULD WE HUMANS MANIPULATE GENDER RATIO ?

SEX SELECTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES WHAT ARE THEY ?

• SEX SELECTION TECHNIQUES PRECONCEPTION TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE PROBABILITY OF EMBRYO BEING OF A PARTICULAR SEX (THIS IS PROHIBITED UNDER THE ACT)

• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROCEDURES AND / OR TESTS)

USG/FETOSCOPY/AMNIOCENTESIS/CVS/BLOOD TESTS/ANY TISSUE/FLUID OF MAN OR WOMAN BEFORE OR AFTER CONCEPTION

GOVT COMMITTEES

• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE BILL PRESENTED IN LOK SABHA IN 1991

• SETTING UP OF A JOINT COMMITTEE• REINTRODUCTION OF BILL IN 1992• ADOPTED IN 1994 AS ACT 57 OF 1994• AMENDMENTS 2001(32 OF 2001)• AMENDMENT 14 OF 2003 AS PC PNDT

PCPNDT ACT WHAT IS THIS ?

THE PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES

(PROHIBITION OF SEX SELECTION) ACT 1994(57 OF 1994)

UNCONFIRMED STATISTICS• ABOUT 70,000 MACHINES SOLD IN INDIA• FOGSI HAS 25,000 MEMBERS OUT OF WHICH ONLY 8000 HAVE

MACHINES• IRIA HAS 15,000 MEMBERS OUT OF WHICH ONLY 8000 HAVE

MACHINES• ABOUT 10,000 MACHINES WITH CARDIOLOGIST, OPHTO,RENAL AND

OTHER UNITS• WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE MACHINESS…..THEY ARE IN WRONG

UNQUALIFIED NON MEDICAL HANDS WHICH ARE ACTUALLY DOING THIS CRIME….CATCH THEM ??

• Unfortunately PCPNDT act is only against doctors and non medicos etc cannot be caught under this act and they also do not report cases or fill forms

WHY THE SUDDEN INTEREST AGAIN

• CENSUS 2010-2011 SHOWS TOTAL FAILURE OF THE LAW TO CONTROL THIS SOCIAL EVIL

• SO MORE THRUST ON SOCIAL AWARENESS• AAMIR KHAN’S SATYA MEV JAYATE• AMITABH BACHAN’S VIDEO FOR FOGSI• AKSHAY KUMAR AND TWINKLE ’S RECORDED

MESSAGE FOR THIS CONFERENCE• AND THE PRESENCE OF ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST

KAVITA RADHESHYAM AND …THE BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL AT THIS CONFERENCE

Daughters Are PreciousEpisode 01: Female Foeticide

•In this episode Aamir talks about the killing of unborn girls, or female foeticide, an alarming and frightening reality. It involves the collusion of families, doctors and a social structure that encourages the desire for a boy child - at any cost. The result has been the death of over 3 crore unborn girls since independence and a generation of young men, many amongst whom will find it very tough to get a life partner.

Today we all doctors (FOGSI & IRIA & IFUMB)• WE UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SERVICE

PROVIDER SAYS NO….THEN IT WILL BE A NO

• WE KNOW SOME OF OUR CLAN ARE STILL INDULGING IN THIS

• WE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT MAJORITY OF SUCH PRACTICE IS BEING DONE BY NON MEDICAL QUACKS AND SO IS THE ABORTIONS

• WE UNDERSTAND IT’S A SOCIAL PROBLEM AND A SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS TO BE STARTED AGAINT THIS

• THE GOVT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE OBJECTIVE & ETHOS OF THE LAW AND NOT THE FORM FILLINGS ONLY,BRINGING TECHNICALITY THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE LAW HAS BEEN DEFEATED

FOGSI 2008LOGO OF SAVE THE GIRL CHILD

• BHARAT JAGRUTI YATRA• ALL OUR ENVELOPES CARRY A LINE..SAY NO TO SEX

DETERMINATION• PCPNT SEMINARS ARRANGED• SESSIONS IN CONFERENCES• A DOSST(DOCTORS OPPOSING SELECTIVE SEX TESTS)

APPOINTED AT EACH FOGSI SOCIETY• A NEWS LETTER AT EVERY ANNUAL CONFERENCE• AN AWARD FOR THE SOCIAL WORK UNDERTAKEN

UNDER THIS THEME• AWARENESS PROGRAMMES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

FOGSI SAVE THE GIRL CHILD NEWS LETTER

FOSGI’S DAUGHTER

SMRITI WHAT WE DO

FREE LANCE PHOTOGRAPHERS PITCH IN WITH PICTURES OF MOTHER AND CHILD OF INDIA AND VIDEOS

• MR SUNIL GULATI MUMBAI :MOTHERS AND CHILDREN & GIRL CHILD PICTURES

• MR SAHIL FAUZDAR AGRA..”CHIRAIYA VIDEO”• MANY CONTRIBUTE POETRY(DR PRATIMA)• MANY CONTRIBUTE PAINTINGS( DR INDRANI LODH

OF KOLKATA)• MANY MANY NGO’S OF INDIA HAVE JOINED THE

WAR AGAINST SELECTIVE SEX DETERMINATION

SMRITI MAGAZINES

BACKGROUND PICSSUNIL GULATI

POEMS PRATIMA RADHAKRISHNAN AND

FRIENDS

SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES ANDPOEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE

DR INDRANI LODH’S PAINTINGS

RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009

DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011

SMRITI CAR RALLY 27th feb 2011

DOCTORS OF RIWARI & GURGAON & SAWANGI MEGHE DO

“NUKAAD NATAKS”

IMAGES OF GIRLS OF INDIA CAPTURED BY SUNIL GULATI A BANKAR CEO EMIRATES BANK AND A FREE LANCE

PHOTOGRAPHER

GIRLS OF INDIAADOPTED BY SMRITI

FOR EDUCATIONONE Of THEM COULD

BE YOURS UNDER “CAP”

AMITABH BACCHAN GIVES A MESSAGE FOR FOGSI 2008

akshay kumar &twinkle message for us recorded on 30th may 2012, thnx to dr chander lulla IFUMB

NOW INTRODUCING KAVITA RADHESHYAM

KAVITA RADHESHYAM DOES THE ROLES

can I request all the LOC members to come on the dias

Can I request all the LOC MEMBERS to come on the dias

can we request the LOC members to come on the dias and join kavita radheshyam

THE OATHCOLLECT YOUR COPY AUTOGRAPHED BY KAVITA

RADHESHYAM

every one rise and raise your rt hand to your heart and repeat after kavita

THANK YOU FOR SAYING NO TO SEX DETERMINATION AND FEMALE FETICIDEFOGSI –IFUMB-IRIA-ISUOG INITIATIVE

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