Celebrating Girl-Child-Day on 24th January


MADHU AGRAWAL
(Guinness Record Holder for letters in Newspapers)

Mere celebrating Girl-Child day on 24th January every year is not enough. Need is to induce some guidelines which may practically make people think birth of girl child a boon rather than bane and rather find to have birth of girl-child in the family it a necessity for all practical purposes.

Registration of properties in women’s names showed remarkable rise in Delhi after stamp-duty on such deals was subsidized for women. Union and state governments should take all possible measures for similar concessions like can be for reduction of VAT on items like vehicles registered in name of women. Interest-rates for home and other loans may be subsidized while on deposits it can be extra for women. Some fields like dentists and gynaecologists in medical-science should be exclusively for women or at least 75-perecent reservation for women. Females should have a sense of security by having automatic and instant rights in husbands’ ancestral and personal property but only for married life without divorce. Presently girl-child is taken as unwanted burden because of increasing expenses in their marriages.India should follow Pakistan by allowing only soft drinks and simple beverages in marriage-related functions. Mega-budgeted marriages should not be attended by leaders on posts. Mega-expenses in marriage-related functions should be effectively checked by government by imposing taxes and other such practical steps. But all this can happen when women which are dominated section of society created by nature, are given 33-percent reservation in legislature in our presently male-dominated political system.

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