how is the government of India trying to control female infanticide
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Female infanticide in India defines as the intentional killing of female newborns. This has various reasons: poor services, poor education, economy, famine etc.
Due to this practice gender imbalance has become more and more visible in India. So during history many programs have been lunched by the state as a response to this practice: Girl Child Protection Scheme (1991) or the baby cradle scheme (1992), which allowed any family to adopt newly born girls that were left outside various institutions, without going to the full chain of adoption papers. Some of these programs had success, some didn't.
In 2011 the government launched the program called Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, that aims to increase awareness of this phenomenon, communication, inform of the important role of females in a society and educate girls.
Explanation:
Few of the steps that are taken by the Government of India to control female infanticide include:
Bringing stringent laws against female infanticide and fetus
Ban on the sonography to determine the sex of the child before the birth
Give financial assistance to the parents of the girl child to raise the girl child
Offering free education to girls under the scheme ""Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao"" (save girl, educate girl)