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Monday, March 9, 2015

Women's day celebrations , are we doing enough except celebrations

  • Literacy rate of Indian women is 65% against 83% of men.
  • School dropout rate amongst adolescent girls in India is as high as 63.5% (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation - MoSPI, 2012)
  • Nearly 45% girls In India get married before the age of eighteen years (National Family Health Survey III - NFHS).
  •  Lack of sanitary protection causes 23% of girls to drop out of school
  •  56% adolescent girls (15-19 years) in India are anaemic, as against 30% adolescent boys (National Family Health Survey III - NFHS)
  • 50 to 60% of girl children do not go beyond their primary schooling
And all the angels that come from heaven don't land to earth as female feoticide is
still high in India.

In Female development index ( given considering all factors like education, discrimination , growth chances , safety etc ), India is behind Srilanka and Burma.

Govt should answer when can we really celebrate!

Thanks

Gopi Gandi

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