Stories...

Our search for truth.........

Dr Fatima (State Homeopathic Dr) went with a pregnant woman to the Khandurie nursing home. She had a tape recorder under her burkha that she had switched on and recorded Dr Khandurie first saying that she did not do sex determination tests and later on call the woman back and say that Rs 600/- were too little she usually charges Rs 1500/-. Dr Fatima then tried to book the Dr under the PPNDT act but she was not allowed to and the CMO himself did not come to support Dr Fatima as the Khandurie nursing home has political backing. Even the media blacked out the issue.After this Kanya Jeevan Dayni and Dr Fatima went to meet the DG Health (Dr Arya) who promised an enquiery into the issue and then he will take action.

Bold PPNDT committee of Dehradun conducted a raid lead by the CMO Shri D.C Dhyani on a clinic run by Dr Chitra Agarwal. They enacted a play and found the clinic guilty of practicing gender testing. The clinic said would charge 900 rupees to disclose the gender of the feotus. When Dr Chitra realised that Mrs Fatima was not pregnant she knew she had been trapped.

The PPNDT committee has started the process of canceling Dr Chitra's registration. This issue has been highlighted in the Amar Ujjala, Dainik Jagran and other state newspapers. The story was reported on the front page.

Concientising our Youths..............

In Pithoragarh at a Mountain Children’s Forum Meeting the issue of gender discrepancy was discussed. Young girls from the village gave an interview saying that despite education nothing had changed in the status of the Girl in the village. It was at this meeting that the boys who were also attending the meeting took an oath that when they went back to their village they would be more sensitive to their sisters and the girls of their village.

"Kunti" striving to make a difference................

Also at the meeting was a young girl called Kunti Rawat from Gairsain Chamoli (the president of the cluster level Bal Panchayat) who is a role model for all other children in the villages and can help stop sex determination. Kunti is a young girl who almost dropped out of school. But with a little motivation from SBMA/Plan she continues her studies and created a Bal Panchayat. This Bal Panchayat is now famous in her village and in Gairsain as well. In Pithoragarh she had the journalists making an exclusive story on her and her Bal Panchyat and the work they did for their village and region. She is an independent thinker, self-confident and is sure that she will make a difference to the way girls are perceived. "A bridge to the gender gap".