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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 AGRA
        sahil 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 India
         census 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 914/1000
AND 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 SOCIETY
1.ECONOMIC UTILITY
2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY
3.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
Save girl child
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 2008
    LOGO 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
SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES AND
POEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE




 BACKGROUND PICS
   SUNIL GULATI
  POEMS PRATIMA
RADHAKRISHNAN AND
     FRIENDS
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DR INDRANI LODH’S PAINTINGS
RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND
  AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009
DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011
Save girl child
Save girl child
Save girl child
SMRITI CAR RALLY 27th feb 2011
Save girl child
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 INDIA
  ADOPTED BY SMRITI
    FOR EDUCATION
 ONE 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 toto come on the dias
 Can I request all the LOC MEMBERS

 come on the dias
can we request the LOC members to come on the dias and join kavita radheshyam
THE OATH
      COLLECT 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 FETICIDE
        FOGSI –IFUMB-IRIA-ISUOG INITIATIVE

                   PLEASE DO SIGN
                     THE POSTER
                       OUTSIDE
          1ST JULY IS FOGSI GIRL CHILD DAY
        ADOPT A GIRL CHILD WITH US TODAY
join smriti and help educate girls

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Save girl child

  • 1. In memory of behram anklesaria who left us on 30th may
  • 2. save the girl child say no to selective sex selection of any methods and say no to selective female feticide and infanticide
  • 3. INTRODUCTION ONE LINE & SIGN FROM EACH OF YOU ON THIS WEALTH ON THE POSTER OUTSIDE
  • 4. 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
  • 5. A video made by us in AGRA sahil fauzdar
  • 6. 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 ?
  • 7. 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
  • 8. Current status of sex ratio in India census 2011-11
  • 9. 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 914/1000 AND IN SOME STATES AS LOW AS 800/1000
  • 10. 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
  • 11. 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
  • 12. 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.
  • 13. EFFECTS OF SON PREFERENCE IN INDIA • MOST FAMILIES KEEP HAVING CHILDREN TILL THEY GET A SON • BENEFITS OF SONS IN INDIAN SOCIETY 1.ECONOMIC UTILITY 2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY 3.RELIGIOUS UTILITY (DAUGHTERS ARE CONSIDERED ECONOMIC LIABILITY,DOWRY AND SYSTEM OF HEAVY COSTS WEDDINGS)
  • 14. 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
  • 15. 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
  • 16. WHAT CAN BE DONE ? • IS SEX SELECTION JUSTIFIED ? • SHOULD WE HUMANS MANIPULATE GENDER RATIO ?
  • 17. 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
  • 18. 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
  • 19. PCPNDT ACT WHAT IS THIS ? THE PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROHIBITION OF SEX SELECTION) ACT 1994(57 OF 1994)
  • 20. 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
  • 21. 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
  • 23. 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
  • 24. FOGSI 2008 LOGO 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
  • 25. FOGSI SAVE THE GIRL CHILD NEWS LETTER
  • 28. 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
  • 30. SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES AND POEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE BACKGROUND PICS SUNIL GULATI POEMS PRATIMA RADHAKRISHNAN AND FRIENDS
  • 37. DR INDRANI LODH’S PAINTINGS
  • 38. RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009
  • 39. DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011
  • 43. SMRITI CAR RALLY 27th feb 2011
  • 45. DOCTORS OF RIWARI & GURGAON & SAWANGI MEGHE DO “NUKAAD NATAKS”
  • 46. IMAGES OF GIRLS OF INDIA CAPTURED BY SUNIL GULATI A BANKAR CEO EMIRATES BANK AND A FREE LANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
  • 47. GIRLS OF INDIA ADOPTED BY SMRITI FOR EDUCATION ONE Of THEM COULD BE YOURS UNDER “CAP”
  • 48. AMITABH BACCHAN GIVES A MESSAGE FOR FOGSI 2008
  • 49. akshay kumar &twinkle message for us recorded on 30th may 2012, thnx to dr chander lulla IFUMB
  • 52. can I request all the LOC members toto come on the dias Can I request all the LOC MEMBERS come on the dias
  • 53. can we request the LOC members to come on the dias and join kavita radheshyam
  • 54. THE OATH COLLECT YOUR COPY AUTOGRAPHED BY KAVITA RADHESHYAM every one rise and raise your rt hand to your heart and repeat after kavita
  • 55. THANK YOU FOR SAYING NO TO SEX DETERMINATION AND FEMALE FETICIDE FOGSI –IFUMB-IRIA-ISUOG INITIATIVE PLEASE DO SIGN THE POSTER OUTSIDE 1ST JULY IS FOGSI GIRL CHILD DAY ADOPT A GIRL CHILD WITH US TODAY
  • 56. join smriti and help educate girls