The educational institutions have, indeed, a key role to play in curbing female foeticide. I believe that institutions help in creating a social ethos which would later become conducive to curbing such menace. Females have been worshipped in our scriptures as goddesses. Do we not love and hold in high esteem our mothers and sisters?
Following are some of the ways in which educational institutions and in turn the young generation of India can help curb female foeticide in our country:
• First, the institutions need to create awareness against female foeticide amongst the young men and women studying in these institutions. A point that is often overlooked is that it is not men alone who are responsible for female foeticide. Women, even mothers of a female infant, resort to killing and dumping the corpse of an infant in a trash box. So, it is a shame that women are involved in such detestable acts.
• Secondly, every young student of an institution should initiate a campaign against female foeticide in his/her locality as also in various adjoining rural areas.
• Thirdly, let this campaign assume the proportions of a mass anti-female foeticide movement bringing in various N.G.Os and other organizations. The movement should be so strengthened that it rocks the parliament as well as the society.
• Fourthly, and perhaps most important, these students should reform their own families and neighbourhood and remain alert all the time against any such happening in their vicinity.
• Lastly, a pressure should be built by youngsters on the government and the parliamentarians to pass the women reservation bill in the Union Parliament, thereby raising the status of women in society and ensuring women’s empowerment. A caution, however, is that a woman should not become a hindrance in the way of progress of other women.
Devashish Chakraborty
M.A. Mass Communication & Journalism
Panjab University
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