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Ban medicines claiming ensured birth of son

By Subhash Chandra Agarwal, RTI activist | PUBLISHED: 01, Apr 2015, 13:48 pm IST | UPDATED: 01, Apr 2015, 13:56 pm IST

Ban medicines claiming ensured birth of son New Delhi: Among the countries of the world India is one where gender discrimintaion ranks quite high. Some states have reported horribly skewed male female ration. On top of that government has not been able to reign in clinics that promote illegal sex determination tests. It is also not surprising that pharma companies advertise medications that assure a male child.

Prime Minister having given slogan ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Parado’ should take note of many companies including even reputed ones especially involved in producing herbal and ayurvedic medicines marketing medicines claiming ensured birth of son. Union government should immediately ban all such medicines/products etc which mislead people for assured birth of a son. Otherwise also all chemicals/medicines disturbing sex-hormones are injurious not only for the consuming mother-to-be but also for the child taking birth.

Instead concrete steps to prevent aborting female foeticide may be through law are necessary. 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 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. 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. Women which are dominated section of society created by nature, should be given 33-percent reservation in legislature and in government-jobs in our presently male-dominated political system.

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 by making event-management firms, caterers, hotels, wedding-card manufacturers and others concerned compulsorily report to some prescribed authority for their role in marriage-related functions as an effective check to make marriage-events simple. Cash, gift-platters etc from bride’s parents to guests of other side should be prevented under dowry-act. With ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna’ already successful, cash-gifts should be compulsorily replaced by cheques.