{"id":207412,"date":"2019-07-29T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207412"},"modified":"2019-07-28T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T02:53:55","slug":"no-girls-born-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/no-girls-born-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock: In 3 months, no girls, 216 boys were born in this district of India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to a horrifying report, not a single girl has been born in the last three months in the Uttarkashi district of India.<\/p>\n

The discovery has launched an investigation into whether sex-selective abortion or female feticide is being practiced in the region, which has a population of over 300,000. The district magistrate Ashish Chauhan spoke to ANI<\/a> saying: “We are monitoring these areas to find out what is affecting the ratio. A detailed survey and study will be conducted to identify the reason behind it.” Officials are also holding emergency meetings with local health care workers.<\/p>\n

According to official data, 216 children were born in the district’s 132 villages in the last three months. None were female. The area has been marked as a \u201cred zone,\u201d meaning it will be scrutinized more closely and the government has asked health care workers to be on alert. In recent days, the government has attempted to prevent sex-selective abortions through its BBBP<\/a> program, which among other things helps to educate on the importance of the Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and promises girls in India a good education.<\/p>\n

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In a 2011 census report<\/a> by the United Nation Population Fund, India\u2019s CSR had declined from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys. Although abortion on the basis of sex is illegal in India, the practice is widespread based on cultural views<\/a> of girls as potential liabilities, and boys as breadwinners and parental caretakers in old age.<\/p>\n

Live Action News recently\u00a0reported<\/a> that 550,000 preborn baby girls are killed each year due to sex-selective abortion in India, with a total of 15.8 million girls lost to sex-selective abortion since 1990. India has also been found to be the \u201cmost dangerous country<\/a> in the world for women\u201d on account of its astronomical numbers of rape and sexual assault. Parents are also frequently pressured to pay dowries when daughters marry, even though the custom was abolished in 1961.\u00a0Kalpana Thakur, a social worker from the region, pointed out that these alarming numbers show that the government isn\u2019t doing enough.<\/p>\n

“No girl child was born for three months in these villages,” said Thakur. “It cannot be just a coincidence. This clearly indicates female foeticide is taking place in the district. The government and the administration are not doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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