India gives incentives for girl children to stem female foeticide


	India gives incentives for girl children to stem female foeticide

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3-6-2008 9:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ce44ec1-890d-49e4-98c4-d0bf4ed5f50c/1948F946-19B8-43E3-9C8D-DCD8E9E3A282/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html" href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.earthtimes.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html">The Indian government announced Monday a slew of incentives for poor families with girl children in an effort to stem the practice of female foeticide. Under the scheme named Dhan Laxmi after the Hindu goddess of wealth, poor families with a girl child would be given cash incentives for registration of birth, immunization, enrolment in school and delaying marriage till she is 18, India's Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html">In addition the girl child would be provided an insurance cover of 100,000 rupees at birth and the rest of the incentives would come to a cash package of about 200,000 rupees, Chowdhury was quoted as saying in an official release.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html">Modern sex selection technology combined with a traditional preference for boys are the main reasons for the skewered ration.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/189572,india-gives-incentives-for-girl-children-to-stem-female-foeticide.html">Chowdhury said the aim of the Dhan Laxmi scheme was to make people value the girl child. "People worship the goddess of wealth in temples, but not the girl child at home," she said.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1948F946-19B8-43E3-9C8D-DCD8E9E3A282/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>