save and protect the Girl Child'-write a speech on the need to prevent female foeticide and give the girl child a good future .
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A very good morning to the respected teachers, my dear friends and other gathered people. I would like to speech on the topic of save girl child at this special occasion. I am very grateful to my class teacher to give such a great opportunity to speech here on this important topic. Saving girl child is a big social awareness programme launched by the government of India to attract human mind on save girl child. The status of women and girl child in India is very clear to all of us. It is no hidden more that how the girls are missing from our society and country day by day. Their percentage in comparison to male are decreasing which is very serious issue. Decreasing number of girls is dangerous to the society and it makes the continuation of life on the earth suspicious. In order to promote the campaign of save girl child, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has launched another campaign called “Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao” (means Save the Girl Child and Educate Her).
India is a fast growing country in every fields. It is booming in the field of economy, research, technologies and infrastructure. Even after such a witnessed advancements in the country, violence again girl child is still practiced. It has made its root so deep which is creating problem in getting out completely from the society. Violence again girl child is the very dangerous social evil. The reason of female foeticide is technological improvement in the country such as ultrasound, sex determination tests, scan tests and amniocentesis, detect genetic abnormalities, etc. All such technologies have given way to various rich, poor and middle class families to detect sex of fetus and abort in case of girl baby.
Earlier amniocentesis was used (started in India in 1974) to detect only fetal abnormalities however later it was started detecting gender of the child (started in 1979 Amritsar, Punjab). However it was forbidden by the Indian Council of Medical Research but it has already destroyed many girl child before their birth. As soon as the test leaked its benefits, people started using it to fulfill their wish to get only boy baby by destroying all the unborn girl child through abortion.
Female foeticide, infanticide, lack of proper nutrition, etc are the issues of decreasing number of girl child in India. By default if a girl child take birth she face other types of discrimination and negligence by their parents and society such as basic nutrition, education, living standard, dowry death, bride burning, rape, sexual harassment, child abuse, and so many. It is very sad to express all the violence against a girl child in our society. India is a country where women are worshiped and called as mother, are still suffering male domination in various ways. According to the UN report, around 750,000 girls are being aborted annually in India especially in the Punjab and Haryana. If the practice of abortion continues for next few years, we surely will see a day without mothers and thus no life.
Generally we all feel proud to be an Indian but for what, to see girl child abortion and other violence against them. I think, we have rights to say ‘proud to be an Indian’ only when we respect and save girl child. We should realize our responsibilities of being an Indian citizen and give a better stop to this evil crime.
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