| Celebrated Every Year on 24th January |
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| Started in | 1964 |
| Celebrated By | India |
The existence of human life on the earth can’t be imagining without the equal participation of both women and men. They both are equally responsible for the survival of the human race on this planet.
Women are also responsible for the betterment and growth of a country. Although the existence of the woman is more important than men. Because without women, earth can’t have future human generation. So, to save humans from extinction we have to take measures to save girl child.
At least now the saving girl child has been a topic of discussions and debates for the past several decades but even today the position remains unchanged. The girl was always an unwanted child, and was found killed at birth. With the advancement in Science and Technology, killing has gone still further far away that girl child is being killed even before birth.
The mindset of the people has grown so worst in our country that they don’t even give respect to women. Swami Vivekanand Ji said that the nation where women are not respected, that country can never progress! Hence, people must learn to respect women and girls.
IMPORTANCE OF GIRL CHILD
To get the inspiration here are some of the greatest achievements made by women of India.
- Kalpana Chawla – First women of India to reach space.
- Arunima Sinha – First Indian female amputee to climb Mountains Everest.
- Pratibha Patil – First Women President of India.
- Kiran Bedi – First women IPS officer of India.
- Roshni Sharma – First Indian women to ride a motorcycle.
- Mithali Raj – First women to score double 100’s in test cricket.
- Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi – First Indian female physician
From the above examples it is proved that today girls are surpassing in every field it may be science, technology, games, astronautics, adventure, or politics. Daughters are equally valuable as sons in our society. They should not be separated from their rights and independence. “Girls are the spirit of our nation, save them and stop their exploitation”.
WHY WE SHOULD SAVE GIRL CHILD?
There is various evils in our society; one of which happens to be the desire to have a boy. In Indian society, everyone wants an ideal mother, sister, wife, and daughter. But they never want that girl to be his blood relative. Besides, there are other social evils in society that forces many parents to avoid having a girl child. These other social evils are dowry deaths, female feticide, and some others.
ABOUT
To create awareness among all to save girl child, National Girl Child Day is celebrated on January 24th every year in India. The day was an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2008. The aim of this day is to spread awareness about the gender based discriminations that girls face in our society and to bring change in the attitude towards girls.
The day is marked by various events and campaigns on ‘Save the Girl Child’, child sex ratios, and creating a healthy and safe environment for every girl child.
STEPS TAKEN BY THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO SAVE GIRL CHILD
To save girl child our government has taken many initiatives and launched many campaigns to save them like “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” (Save the girl child) is the most recent initiative started by the government to actively encourage people to save the girl. Apart from that, many NGOs, companies, corporate groups, human rights commission run various campaigns to save girl child.
The crime against women is a big barrier to the development and growth of the country. However, the government takes this problem seriously and for stopping female feticide they have banned the sex determination ultrasound, amniocentesis, and scan tests in the hospitals and labs. The government takes all these steps aware society that girls are a gift of God and not a burden.
A girl child also deserves a better life and also she must be treated as equal to a boy. Also she should be loved and respected like others. If she participates in the improvement and development of the nation equally then nation can see its better version. Besides this she works very hard for the betterment of society and country. They have also proved their worth and stand equal to boys in every field. Hence, they deserve to survive as their survival means the existence of the human race.
