Saturday 21 July 2012

National Girl Child Day

GIRL CHILD DAY

24th January is celebrated as National Girl Child Day since 2009 , every year. On this day, in 1966 Smt. Indira Gandhi became first woman Prime Minister of India and so, 24th January was selected as National Girl Child Day to commemorate the event. The main objective of celebrating this day is to bring attention on the issue of depleting female to male ratio and take a stand on issues of female foeticide , domestic violence and malnutrition in girl  child.
 To get more details about Male to female Ratio in India click on::Ratio

Girl Child studying

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