11,000 College Students to Work as 'Save Girl Sainiks'

Worried over the " missing girls", red cross societies in Haryana will train over 11,000 college students, preferably girls, as "save girl sainiks" to launch a campaign against female foeticide in the state known for a skewed gender ratio in the country.

The details of these sainks, including their photographs and bio-data, will be displayed on the website of red cross societies to keep in touch with them even after they leave their respective institutions. To train the sainiks seminars will be organized in colleges and experts will give them tips to motivate parents to save the girl child.

"With this move, at least these 11,000 sainiks won't indulge in female foeticide," said Shyam Sunder, media advisor of Haryana Red Cross Society adding that each sainik would get an identity card. "These students will turn into parents in coming years and we hope that they won't forget the importance of girls. As parents, they will be in a position to make a change by deciding against gender bias," said Syham Sunder, who is also secretary of Red Cross Society, Yamunanagar.

"We will initiate this campaign from Yamunanagar," he said, adding that he has already coordinated with two colleges in this regard. During his tenure in Bhiwani as secretary, Red Cross secretary Shyam Sunder had introduced various innovative ideas like "kuan pujan" (worship of well) and "thali beating" on the birth of a girl child and an eighth "phera" while solemnizing weddings with an oath against female foeticide.

"In Bhiwani, we had received a good response from colleges in the save girl child campaign," he claimed, adding that just action against ultrasound centres won't yield good results in absence of support from the society.

About the new campaign, Haryana Red Cross state secretary G P Taneja has sent a communication to all deputy commissioners, who are presidents of district red cross societies, to initiate the campaign in their districts. "After seminars, a save girl team will be set up in each district which will work under the supervision of deputy commissioner and civil surgeon concerned," Taneja added in the communication.

Despite all efforts, the state has witnessed decline especially in the child sex ratio which is monitored on a monthly basis under central registration system (CRS) by recording birth of children. As per the complied figures of first eight months of 2011, the sex ratio is just 826 girls: 1000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years, in comparison to 833:1000 of the corresponding period in 2010 in Haryana. Even the census figures released in March this year had suggested that the state has 830 girls for each 1,000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years.

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