More than 50% of girls fail to enroll in school; those that do
are likely to drop out by the age of 12 and 53% of girls in the
age group of 5-9 yrs are illiterate.
Female Infanticide Cases Reported In North Gujarat
Two cases of female foeticide have come to notice within a span of five days in north Gujarat, the police said Thursday.
A female foetus was recovered by the police from the roof of a commercial complex in the busy Sanjay Chowk.
Incest Incidents- Haryana Shameful Social Heritage
It was a national debate on a news channel. Tempers were running high, so were the decibels. The subject was explosive - Haryana's khaps and their diktats. In the midst of this charged atmosphere.
Female Feticide And Infanticide In India: Gender D..
If my family had been uneducated, entrenched in the patriarchal ways of thinking and steeped in the mire of traditionalist thoughts, the possibility of me not seeing the light of day would have been very high. Why? Because I am female.
The mundane garbage bin has started talking. Three students of Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) Sapan Kadakia, Atul Jain and Shobhit Shubham
Where there's a will, there's a way. Shakti willed to empower 500 girls and found the way to reach them through advertisements and visits to schools in remote areas.
Traditionally in India, a woman has been addressed as a Devi, a goddess. On the face of it this may come across as a very noble gesture. However, actually this belies an underlying expectation of lifelong sacrifices for others.
Shakti in its mission to empower girl child presented an exquisite program – The Grand Finale of Inter School Singing Competition at Nehru Siddhanth Kendra, Ludhiana on the 17th January 2009.
Everybody knows that Shakti offers scholarships to the girls to complete their education. But no body knows that it is an expression of love & blessings by Gurumaa for the girls which reaches them in the form of this help.
When this question was asked to an assembly of girls gathered to listen to Her Holiness Anandmurti Gurumaa, in the auditorium of Vivekananda College for girls, there was a mixed response with a few not knowing what to say.