Mumbai: Maharashtra government will set up vigilance committees in four cities of the state, including Mumbai, to check female foeticide. Speaking at a Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (PCPNDT) review meeting, Health Minister Suresh Shetty said the vigilance committees will be headed by the municipal commissioners.
The committees in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad will report to the government every month. Similarly, he also issued directives for a special drive to check sonography centres in the state, including Kolhapur and Nanded districts, immediately. The minister said doctors and sonography centres conducting sex determination tests would be punished and stern legal measures would be taken against them.
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02:07 AM, May 04, 2013
Eight people, including five doctors were arrested on Saturday for allegedly conducting sex determination tests. Raids were conducted in different hospitals after a local NGO informed the District Magistrate. ...
08:55 AM, Feb 24, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Congress president Sonia Gandhi said in Jaipur on Friday that issues related to crimes against women and children must be promptly dealt with. "Discrimination against the girl child and atrocities against women are a blot on our collective conscience. Sexual harassment, women trafficking and female foeticide should shake us and awaken us," Sonia Gandhi said at the party's meeting in Jaipur. ...
06:21 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Bhopal: Bhopal's Bitiya Club is an initiative that went on to become the inspiration for the Madhya Pradesh government's hugely successful 'Beti Bachaao Aandolan'. The Bitiya Club, a club for couples with only daughters, was created to instill pride in parents and reject the false sense of pity that parents of a girl child had to often go through. Eventually, members of this club became agents of social change working...
09:09 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: India could learn from Bangladesh in the way it is tackling crimes against women, including acid attacks, as well as making strides in women's empowerment, say women parliamentarians from the smaller neighbouring country. "Yes, India can learn a lot from Bangladesh in the field of women's empowerment. We have more girls in schools than boys, we have successfully tackled acid attacks by bringing in two tough laws and...
11:10 AM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: Female foeticide and empowerment of women seem to have become the favourite trending topics for Bollywood stars with Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan and Ajay Devgn amongst the host of celebrities who have taken up the issues on screen and even off it. There is the exploitative Bollywood of regressive themes, of course, but in a welcome development several stars are using their status and enormous clout to attempt...
03:25 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has become the third Indian actor to be featured on the cover of the Time magazine, for taking up social issues on his television show 'Satyamev Jayate'. He is featured on the cover of Time with the caption 'Khan's Quest'. The blurb says, "He's breaking the Bollywood mold by tackling India's social evils. Can one actor change a nation?" It was only after his...
06:31 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Female foeticide is not a lesson in their text books but students at the Bibipur village school in Haryana are happy to stay an extra hour to listen to a man - their Sarpanch Sunil Jaglan. 30-year-old Jaglan, an MA in Mathematics took a calculated risk by doing something that had never happened in the 1000 year history of the Khaps. He invited women to a Mahapanchayat of...
08:51 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday announced Rs one crore for the development of a village where a Khap Mahapanchayat termed female foeticide as a "heinous act" and demanded murder charges be slapped against those involved in the illegal practice. The chief minister has announced the money for village Bibipur in Jind district as its residents especially women have taken the initiative to condemn female foeticide, an...
04:19 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Jind: The Khap panchayats in Haryana, because of the worse sex ratio in the country, are looking for ways to solve the problem of female foeticide. They have condemned the offence and ruled that it should be treated at par with murder. It was a first of sorts in the history of Khap panchayats in north India. Seldom seen together, women and men came together in Jind, Haryana to take...
06:15 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Jind: The Jind Maha Khap Panchayat has admitted that female foeticide a condemnable crime. The Panchayat said that female foeticide equals murder and should be a punishable offence. The issue of female foeticide was taken up by 200 Khaps from across North India. The Khap Panchayats from Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh participated in an awareness session of sorts. The Panchayat representatives were holding awareness discussions on female foeticide,...
01:50 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: Even as more than 200 Khap panchayats from across north India congregate in Haryana on Saturday to discuss the menace of female foeticide, two baby girls were found abandoned in Jodhpur and Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state that ranks amongst the top when it comes to female foeticide. A premature baby girl died in Jaipur on Friday. She was found lying near the railway tracks after an Agra-Ajmer...
08:51 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: On Saturday, close to 150-200 Khaps from North India will be congregating at the Jind District in Haryana in a village called Bibipur at 11:00 am to discuss the issue of female foeticide. Honour killings and dowry related issues will also be discussed. Khaps from Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh will be participating in the meet. Women in villages across North India had reportedly given a call...
06:23 AM, Jul 14, 2012
Mumbai: Aamir Khan says aborting a child after sex determination is wrong and supports the Maharashtra government's proposal to give severe punishment to those involved in such offences. The state has sought the central government's opinion for slapping a charge of homicide on cultprits of female foeticide. Commenting upon the state's decision, Aamir Wednesday told reporters: "I think female foeticide is a very serious issue. And if it continues the...
05:28 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Jodhpur: Body of a newborn girl, surrounded by dogs who were trying to feast on it, was on Saturday found in a garbage dump behind the Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur. Police found the body inside the garbage pile after by-passers, who also claimed to have spotted two bodies of infants, informed them. Police have, however, denied the two infants theory and claimed that there was only one infant and that...
05:45 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Mumbai: After running successfully for four years and 850 episodes, 'Na Aana Is Des Laado', about female foeticide, is set to come to an end. It goes off air July 27. In the show, Meghna Malik plays Ammaji who is against girl child. The show tracked Ammaji's journey from being a stern sarpanch in approval of female infanticide and her change of heart. "We do not believe in stretching a...
02:58 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has said that his show Satyamev Jayate is not an attempt to reform the political class. Rather, it is an attempt to provoke people to look inward and question themselves on their contribution to the society. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, the Bollywood star said that he alone could not change the society and that a change in people's attitude was required to make...
11:09 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Mumbai: After more than a month on the run, the Doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortions and female foeticide in Maharashtra's Beed district finally surrendered on Sunday. Doctors Sadam and Saraswati Munde will be produced in court on Monday. The Bombay High Court had rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had reported last week how the doctor duo was allegedly responsible for mass female foeticide had managed...
06:36 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortion cases in Beed on Sunday surrendered before police. Sadam Munde and his wife surrendered in Parali police station. Earlier, the Bombay High Court rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had exposed how illegal abortions and female foeticide were rampant in Beed district of Maharashtra. ...
09:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
