this is a presentation made in DELHI on 30th may for save the girl child and say NO to sex selection in the IIS 2012 CONFERENCE........... WE ALL NEED TO UNDERSATND OUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BE "GOOD DOCTOR"................

1. In memory of behram anklesaria who
left us on 30th may

2. save the girl child
say no to selective sex selection of any
methods and say no to selective female
feticide and infanticide

3. INTRODUCTION
ONE LINE & SIGN FROM EACH OF YOU ON THIS WEALTH ON THE POSTER OUTSIDE

4. INDIA
INDIA IS THE 125TH HAPPIEST
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
WHY ?
WHY NOT NO 1 OR NO 2 OR 3 ?
BECOS WE HAVE NO WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

5. A video made by us in AGRA
sahil fauzdar

6. Infanticide of infant girls continues to be a problem.
Laws have been passed against this practice but this
has led to more subtle yet even more cruel methods
of murder.
• DO YOU AGREE ?

7. Why save the girl child ??
• Altered sex ratio in India
• Abuse of sex determination techniques
• Want of a male child only
• Social pressures on the couples and also on
the providers
• No one complains as both parties are guilty

8. Current status of sex ratio in India
census 2011-11

9. SEX RATIO
SEX RATIO OF A COUNTRY IS DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF
FEMALES PER 1000 MALES IN THAT SET GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA
OUR NATIONAL RATIO IS 914/1000
AND IN SOME STATES AS LOW AS 800/1000

10. Indian social scenario
• Women suppression gender bias
• Want of only male child or atleast one male child
for various social and religeous beliefs and family
name continuation
• Female child not welcome
• Advent of ultrasound as a tool for detection of sex
• Advent of amniocentesis and cvs
• Mushrooming of various such centres offering such
services in urban cities in the late 1980’s

11. How did all this begin ?
• Amniocentesis test by AIIMS for genetic diagnosis a break thru in
India 1980’s
• Tests were soon commercially available
• Test abuse started for sex determination and for diagnosis of
female fetus
• A lot of hue and cry was made by NGO’S and altered sex ratio was
detected in the census 1990
• Govt committee, law drafted as pndt act, law modified as pcpndt
act…a lot of time taken for gazette notifications in states
• Many clerical and administrative and forms to be filled
• The punishment to DOCTOR was same for mistake in form filling
and actual sex determination
• A lot of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of law by law
enforcing agencies
• A lot of harrassment and no or very few people actually caught for
the crime( most cases for not filling forms correctly)
• Many NGO’s like CEHAT and others in court as PIL’S
• GOVT AND FOGSI AND IRIA NOW TAKING TO SIMPLIFY THE
REPORTING AND TO DEAL WITH THE ACTUAL CRIME

12. PC PNDT ACT
• A law was passed in 1994 prohibiting tests
that reveal the gender of a fetus prenatally
and abortions on the basis of fetal sex are
also illegal but the laws are not well
enforced.

13. EFFECTS OF SON PREFERENCE IN INDIA
• MOST FAMILIES KEEP HAVING CHILDREN TILL THEY
GET A SON
• BENEFITS OF SONS IN INDIAN SOCIETY
1.ECONOMIC UTILITY
2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY
3.RELIGIOUS UTILITY
(DAUGHTERS ARE CONSIDERED ECONOMIC
LIABILITY,DOWRY AND SYSTEM OF HEAVY COSTS
WEDDINGS)

14. FEMALE SIBLING
• MALE CHILDREN ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE
FULLY VACCINATED
• BOYS ARE BREASTFED FOR A LONGER TIME
• BOYS ARE FED MORE THAN GIRLS/AND GIRLS
ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE STUNTED IN
GROWTH
• EDUCATION TO GIRLS IS RESTRICTED

15. INDIA SEX RATIOS
• ALARMING IN PUNJAB AND
HARYANA and DELHI
• ABOUT 800/1000 AND
773/1000
• UP 852/1000
• AGRA 852/1000(IMPROVED
TO 920/1000)
• AZAMGARH 1007/1000
• KERALA HAS A HEALTHY
RATIO OF 980/1000

16. WHAT CAN BE DONE ?
• IS SEX SELECTION
JUSTIFIED ?
• SHOULD WE HUMANS
MANIPULATE GENDER
RATIO ?

17. SEX SELECTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES WHAT ARE THEY ?
• SEX SELECTION TECHNIQUES PRECONCEPTION
TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE PROBABILITY OF EMBRYO
BEING OF A PARTICULAR SEX (THIS IS PROHIBITED UNDER
THE ACT)
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROCEDURES AND /
OR TESTS)
USG/FETOSCOPY/AMNIOCENTESIS/CVS/BLOOD TESTS/ANY
TISSUE/FLUID OF MAN OR WOMAN BEFORE OR AFTER
CONCEPTION

18. GOVT COMMITTEES
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE
BILL PRESENTED IN LOK SABHA IN 1991
• SETTING UP OF A JOINT COMMITTEE
• REINTRODUCTION OF BILL IN 1992
• ADOPTED IN 1994 AS ACT 57 OF 1994
• AMENDMENTS 2001(32 OF 2001)
• AMENDMENT 14 OF 2003 AS PC PNDT

19. PCPNDT ACT WHAT IS THIS ?
THE PRECONCEPTION
AND PRENATAL
DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES
(PROHIBITION OF SEX
SELECTION) ACT
1994(57 OF 1994)

20. UNCONFIRMED STATISTICS
• ABOUT 70,000 MACHINES SOLD IN INDIA
• FOGSI HAS 25,000 MEMBERS OUT OF WHICH ONLY 8000
HAVE MACHINES
• IRIA HAS 15,000 MEMBERS OUT OF WHICH ONLY 8000
HAVE MACHINES
• ABOUT 10,000 MACHINES WITH CARDIOLOGIST,
OPHTO,RENAL AND OTHER UNITS
• WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE MACHINESS…..THEY ARE IN
WRONG UNQUALIFIED NON MEDICAL HANDS WHICH ARE
ACTUALLY DOING THIS CRIME….CATCH THEM ??
• Unfortunately PCPNDT act is only against doctors and non
medicos etc cannot be caught under this act and they also
do not report cases or fill forms

21. WHY THE SUDDEN INTEREST AGAIN
• CENSUS 2010-2011 SHOWS TOTAL FAILURE OF THE
LAW TO CONTROL THIS SOCIAL EVIL
• SO MORE THRUST ON SOCIAL AWARENESS
• AAMIR KHAN’S SATYA MEV JAYATE
• AMITABH BACHAN’S VIDEO FOR FOGSI
• AKSHAY KUMAR AND TWINKLE ’S RECORDED
MESSAGE FOR THIS CONFERENCE
• AND THE PRESENCE OF ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST
KAVITA RADHESHYAM AND …THE BOLD AND
BEAUTIFUL AT THIS CONFERENCE

23. Today we all doctors (FOGSI & IRIA & IFUMB)
• WE UNDERSTAND THAT IF THE SERVICE
PROVIDER SAYS NO….THEN IT WILL BE A
NO
• WE KNOW SOME OF OUR CLAN ARE STILL
INDULGING IN THIS
• WE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT MAJORITY
OF SUCH PRACTICE IS BEING DONE BY NON
MEDICAL QUACKS AND SO IS THE
ABORTIONS
• WE UNDERSTAND IT’S A SOCIAL PROBLEM
AND A SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS TO BE
STARTED AGAINT THIS
• THE GOVT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE
OBJECTIVE & ETHOS OF THE LAW AND NOT
THE FORM FILLINGS ONLY,BRINGING
TECHNICALITY THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF
THE LAW HAS BEEN DEFEATED

24. FOGSI 2008
LOGO OF SAVE THE GIRL CHILD
• BHARAT JAGRUTI YATRA
• ALL OUR ENVELOPES CARRY A LINE..SAY NO TO SEX
DETERMINATION
• PCPNT SEMINARS ARRANGED
• SESSIONS IN CONFERENCES
• A DOSST(DOCTORS OPPOSING SELECTIVE SEX TESTS)
APPOINTED AT EACH FOGSI SOCIETY
• A NEWS LETTER AT EVERY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
• AN AWARD FOR THE SOCIAL WORK UNDERTAKEN
UNDER THIS THEME
• AWARENESS PROGRAMMES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

25. FOGSI SAVE THE GIRL CHILD NEWS
LETTER

26. FOSGI’S DAUGHTER

27. SMRITI WHAT WE DO

28. FREE LANCE PHOTOGRAPHERS PITCH
IN WITH PICTURES OF MOTHER AND
CHILD OF INDIA AND VIDEOS
• MR SUNIL GULATI MUMBAI :MOTHERS AND
CHILDREN & GIRL CHILD PICTURES
• MR SAHIL FAUZDAR AGRA..”CHIRAIYA VIDEO”
• MANY CONTRIBUTE POETRY(DR PRATIMA)
• MANY CONTRIBUTE PAINTINGS( DR INDRANI LODH
OF KOLKATA)
• MANY MANY NGO’S OF INDIA HAVE JOINED THE
WAR AGAINST SELECTIVE SEX DETERMINATION

29. SMRITI MAGAZINES

30. SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES AND
POEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE
BACKGROUND PICS
SUNIL GULATI
POEMS PRATIMA
RADHAKRISHNAN AND
FRIENDS

37. DR INDRANI LODH’S PAINTINGS

38. RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND
AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009

39. DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011

43. SMRITI CAR RALLY 27th feb 2011

45. DOCTORS OF RIWARI & GURGAON &
SAWANGI MEGHE DO
“NUKAAD NATAKS”

46. IMAGES OF GIRLS OF INDIA CAPTURED BY SUNIL GULATI A
BANKAR CEO EMIRATES BANK AND A FREE LANCE
PHOTOGRAPHER

47. GIRLS OF INDIA
ADOPTED BY SMRITI
FOR EDUCATION
ONE Of THEM COULD
BE YOURS UNDER “CAP”

48. AMITABH BACCHAN GIVES A
MESSAGE FOR FOGSI 2008

49. akshay kumar &twinkle message for
us recorded on 30th may 2012, thnx to
dr chander lulla IFUMB

50. NOW INTRODUCING
KAVITA RADHESHYAM

51. KAVITA RADHESHYAM DOES THE ROLES

52. can I request all the
LOC members toto come on the dias
Can I request all the LOC MEMBERS
come on the dias

53. can we request the LOC members to come on the dias and join kavita radheshyam

54. THE OATH
COLLECT YOUR COPY AUTOGRAPHED
BY KAVITA RADHESHYAM
every one rise and raise your rt hand to your heart and repeat after kavita

55. THANK YOU FOR SAYING NO TO SEX DETERMINATION AND
FEMALE FETICIDE
FOGSI –IFUMB-IRIA-ISUOG INITIATIVE
PLEASE DO SIGN
THE POSTER
OUTSIDE
1ST JULY IS FOGSI GIRL CHILD DAY
ADOPT A GIRL CHILD WITH US TODAY

56. join smriti and help educate girls