New Delhi: Women and Child Development ministry has planned an initiative under which hospitals in 100 districts would have one-stop crisis centres to resolve problems being faced by women.
"Such centres would have medical assistance, trained police personnel and protection officers," WCD minister Krishna Tirath said at the National Editors' conference in New Delhi on Saturday.
Tirath said a plan of action has also been readied by the central government to arrest the declining child sex ratio. She said the government is also planning to set up a national level institute of women's development and empowerment.
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02:12 AM, Mar 24, 2013
There was an urgent need to overcome the male-biased sex-ratio in the country through a combination of strategies, including new laws and advocacy, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday. ...
12:46 AM, Jan 17, 2013
Sex-selective abortion is rampant in Delhi, particularly in south Delhi, a survey by Centre for Social Research (CSR), an organisation working for women empowerment and welfare, revealed on Wednesday. "CSR took this survey in southwest Delhi where the problem is more pronounced. About 900 households were surveyed for over a year from February to December 2012. We found that most people still prefer sons than daughters, fearing dowry, security of...
12:00 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Hisar: All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has said low sex ratio is partly responsible for the spate of rapes in Haryana as the ninth case was reported from the state in less than a month. The association also accused the police of apathy towards rape victims and their families. AIDWA Vice President Jagmati Sangwan said, "The sex ratio in Haryana is so dismal that boys are not finding girls...
11:12 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Srinagar: A year after the Jammu and Kashmir government cracked down on sex determination centres, CNN-IBN has learnt that many of them have opened up again. In 2011, year when census figures had revealed the declining numbers of the girl child, the state government had come down heavily on the diagnostic centres suspected of conducting sex determination tests. A year later these clinics have started to open slowly prompting questions...
03:25 PM, Jun 23, 2012
(The fact that we need an education from a Bollywood actor being paid an astronomical sum to understand our social woes is as much a ...
10:51 AM, May 14, 2012
Thanks to Aamir Khan's show 'Satyamev Jayate', the spirited discussions and even outrage have not stopped since Sunday morning when the inaugural episode on female infanticide was first telecast. While Khan himself met Rajastan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to petition his government to act against the social menace, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday terminated the license of 65 Medical Termination of Pregnancy centres in order to check the Sex...
05:30 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi has recorded a slight increase in sex ratio from 821 in 2001 to 866 in 2011 but a close look at statistics shows that it is most skewed in VVIP areas with high-end Connaught Place and Chanakyapuri topping the list of ignominy. The child sex ratio too is not that impressive in the Lutyens' Delhi, the seat of the high and mighty of the country. According to...
01:30 AM, May 08, 2012
Just when you thought that the news media was dissipating itself in the purposeless eddies of irrelevance, trying to keep people excited without engaging them ...
03:16 PM, May 07, 2012
The new Aamir Khan show 'Satyamev Jayate' has once again ignited the debate on the female infanticide in the country, especially in the north, which is also called the Hindi belt. The opening episode of the show had mothers from different parts of rural and urban India talking about the pressure and the problems they faced for delivering a girl child. "If Partition was the silent holocaust, foeticide is our...
01:24 PM, May 07, 2012
Chandigarh: A woman was allegedly strangulated to death by her husband in Punjab's Tarn Taran district as he was upset that she had given birth to three daughters, police said. Paramjit Kaur, 35, who was married in Chabaal village of Tarn Taran, 270 km from Chandigarh, was allegedly murdered by Nishan Singh. Her brother Surjit Singh told police that Nishan Singh used to beat and torture her earlier also when...
11:22 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Udaipur: A new-born girl was found dumped on the edge of a sewer line in a deserted area in Rajasthan's Udaipur city early Saturday morning, police said. The infant girl, who appears to have been disowned by her parents, has been adopted by an NGO. "Some morning joggers heard the cries of a baby. They spotted her lying on the brink of the sewer line in Udaipur Road area of...
09:28 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Shimla: Tribal Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh has the highest sex ratio in the country with 1,017 females for every 1,000 males, Chief Minister PK Dhumal said on Wednesday. Inaugurating a two-day workshop on 'Rights of Girl Child and Future Impact on Imbalanced Sex Ratio' organised by the HP State Social Welfare Board, Dhumal said his government has made consistent efforts to save the girl child. In the...
08:05 AM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: India may have two new women Chief Ministers but Indians still seem to be obsessed with the male child. The latest Lancet report reveals shocking statistics of the rich aborting the second girl child. Pamela Vashisht exposes the myth that education can change mindsets - the daughter of a retired colonel, married to an engineer - and mother of two girls - Pamela is today fighting a case...
08:30 PM, May 27, 2011
Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if educated Indians are aborting girl child. ...
01:15 AM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: A new study published in medical journal Lancet has some alarming findings; selective abortion has led to 7.1 million fewer girls than boys up to the age of 6. It is a gender gap that has widened by more than a million in a decade. The study also finds that in the last 30 years, an estimated 4 to 12 million girls were aborted because of their sex. ...
06:50 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: A new study published in medical journal Lancet has some alarming findings; selective abortion has led to 7.1 million fewer girls than boys up to the age of 6. It is a gender gap that has widened by more than a million in a decade. The study also finds that in the last 30 years, an estimated 4 to 12 million girls were aborted because of their sex....
06:50 PM, May 25, 2011
Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it's a privilege to be a girl. Being a girl child is a privilege in Dhahra village of Bhagalpur, Bihar. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch ...
09:34 AM, May 18, 2011
Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it's a privilege to be a girl. Being a girl child is a privilege in Dhahra village of Bhagalpur, Bihar. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch...
09:34 AM, May 18, 2011
Mumbai: Concerned over the growing incidence of female infanticide in state's Marathwada region and Beed district in particular, the Maharashtra government has convened a meeting on May 20 of all concerned officials in Beed to discuss crackdown on irregular activities. Beed has the lowest male-female sex ratio in the age group of 0-6 years (801 as against 1000 male children) as per the 2011 census. Maharashtra's sex ratio in the...
10:30 AM, May 17, 2011
