Delhi female births rise hailed
India's capital, Delhi, recorded more female than male births during 2008, for the first time in many decades.
Latest government data shows for every 1,000 males, 1,004 girls were born in Delhi in 2008.Also good to know is the fact that results have been achieved due to activism by some members of medical community. Indeed it seems the right way to bring social change is not merely by enacting laws but by few people starting the change and acting within society.
Dr Dharm Prakash of the Indian Medical Association, which ran a campaign against aborting girl foetuses, welcomed the report.
"The community has responded to our request that girls should be born," he said.
His organisation started a "Say No To Sex Selective Abortions" campaign and urged doctors to refrain from doing so.
"Our own colleagues have stopped especially after the implementation of the law against it," Dr Prakash said.
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