Across the globe, 24th September is celebrated as International Girl Child Day. But in India National Girl Child Day is celebrated on 24th January every year since 2009. Forty Six years ago, on January 24, 1966, India got her First Lady Prime Minister - Mrs. Indira Gandhi - and in order to raise public awareness, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government declared to observe January 24 as the National Girl Child Day. But for us every day is a Girl Child Day because we are too very happy to be the parents of two most beautiful girls on earth.
While researching on girl children, I came across a United Nations survey conducted in 2007 which says about 2000 unborn girls are illegally aborted each day in India. Can you believe it? Also, the national average of sex ratio is 927 females to 1000 males with states like Punjab (799) and Delhi (850). And we always thought India was progressing. How can people be so cruel?
January 24 marks the day that Indira Gandhi took over as the first and only woman prime minister of India. Just wondering when we will be getting our second woman prime minister. Will we ever get it?
The Government of India is doing every possible bit to raise public awareness on the deep bias against female children in India. If I am not mistaken, 2001 (the year Googaa was born) was declared as the ‘women empowerment year’ and yesterday was the third consecutive year when National Girl Child Day was celebrated in India.
But like I said before, for us each day is a Girl Child Day and each moment spent with our girls is the most important moments of our lives. Though this post comes a bit late, we are never late to bestow our appreciation on the two wonderful girls we have in our lives!!!
Dear Jesus, thank you so much…………………!
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