HowÌýeducation for girls in India is being encouraged by the government.
In India more and more middle-class women are undergoing illegal sex determination tests to assess whether the foetus they are carrying is male or female. If the latter, they may opt for an abortion. The result is that in some states there are now half the number of girls being born as there are boys – with all the future problems that implies. As a result, the Indian Government and a host of public agencies and NGOs have launched a Save the Girl Child campaign to promote girl children – with many initiatives geared towards education. Clare Jenkins has been in New Delhi to find out about some of them.
