TODAY WE are celebrating the National Girl Day throughout the country. It’s a high time that we treat a girl child equally and give her same rights as that of her brother. Our law is also very shortly coming with an amendment to ensure that the girls also get equal rights and opportunity in all respects.

 

The central social welfare board implemented a campaign against the female foeticide several years before and has gained momentum as well .All the state welfare boards have joined their hands in the campaign. The boards also conduct awareness camps mostly in rural areas to educate people about the need to protect girl child and to fight against this dreadful disease. They also conduct camps on gender imbalances and its future implications thereof.

 

There is likely to be a social tension when the girl and boy ratio decreases and problems like finding a female partner will also arise. We should educate them well to be good mothers tomorrow. In fact, our girls are most precious - they are our pearls.

 

Our girls are global champions. Mother Teresa, Sarojni Naidu, Bhutto, Kalpana Chawla, Thatcher, Pratibha Patil, Indira Gandhi, Kiran Bedi, Sunita Williams, Sania Mirza, Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Mamata Banerjee, Uma Bharti, Sushma Swaraj, P T Usha and many others have made a mark in their respective fields.

 

A girl has various roles to play in her life starting with a daughter, sister, wife, mother, daughter-in-law and Nani/ Dadi and plays all of them wonderfully without any expectations. It is always the word, Maaa that is remembered while sick and at the death bed! A son is your son till he gets married, but a daughter is your daughter till death. A home is no home, which does not have a daughter. It is only because of our mothers that we live today.