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  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by urmiladuhan View Post
    I think, best is to focus on the solution rather than the problem.
    Without going deep into genesis of the problem, no viable solution can be found.

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  3. #22
    Quote Originally Posted by vpsingh View Post
    Without going deep into genesis of the problem, no viable solution can be found.
    As Gandhi said : "Be the change you want to see in the world"

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  5. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by raka View Post
    एक रांडा ही असल माइने में दर्द समझ सके स इस कन्या भूर्ण हत्या का , जदे उपेंदर भाई इसी इसी खबरा पे पूरा ध्यान राखे स , कोई न भाई सबर राख बैठेगा सूत

    हा...हा...हा...राका भाई...

    दरअसल मैंने तो ये लेख बहुत पहले देख लिया था...अब इस विषय पर थ्रेड शुरू हुआ तो सोचा शेयर कर दूं...न जाने किसने एक बार यहीं अपनी एक पोस्ट में एक बात कही थी कि घर का कूड़ा गुदड़ी के नीचे दबाते क्यों हो...समाज में कोई बुराई पनप रही है तो उस पर चर्चा होने दो...तभी कुछ जागृति आएगी...'जाट' शब्द सभी जाटों को एक सूत्र में बांधता है...कोई जाट अच्छा करता है तो उससे सभी जाटों का मान बढ़ता है, लेकिन किसी भी क्षेत्र विशेष के जाटों में कोई बुराई पनपती है तो फिर सभी जाटों का नाम खराब होता है...आशा की जानी चाहिए कि आने वाले समय में जाटों में चेतना जगेगी और कन्या भ्रूण हत्या जैसी यह बुराई ख़त्म होगी...

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  7. #24
    Quote Originally Posted by urmiladuhan View Post
    As Gandhi said : "Be the change you want to see in the world"
    Sure, Charity begins at home.

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  9. #25
    देश में एक नारा चला " हम दो हमारे दो " | अब बात देश की थी तो जाटों ने इस नारे को सर आँखों पे लेना ही था | पर इसमें अपनी तरफ से थोड़ा सा संसोधन कर दिया की बालक दो हो पर दोनों छोरे ही हो क्योंकि एक आँख का के बंद करना और के खोलना | इस आँख खोलन के चक्कर में यह भूल गए के आगे चल कर इनके घर क्यूकर खुलेंगे ? इस समस्या को बढाने में सबसे बड़ा योगदान रहा नारी जाति का | नारी ही नारी की सबसे बड़ी दुश्मन हैं | सांसु बहु के दिमाग में बैठा देती के पोते का मूंह देखना हैं | छोरा माँ की बात पर एतराज करे तो उस पर लांछन लग जाए की यो तो बहु का गुलाम हो लिया | मर्द जात से यह औरत की गुलामी वाला लांछन बर्दास्त नहीं होता तो इस लांछन से बेहतर हैं की माँ की मान ली जाए | जबकि बेटी हमेशा बाप की लाडली होती हैं | इन सबके के चक्कर में आज हालत यह हो गए की गाँव में भैंस की साईं वाला भी सगाई वाला दिखने लगा | पर अब हालात पहले से सुधर रहे हैं लोगो के समस्या समझ आ रही हैं |
    " जाट हारा नहीं कभी रण में तीर तोप तलवारों से ,
    जाट तो हारा हैं , गद्दारों से दरबारों से
    |"

    " इस कौम का ईलाही दुखड़ा किसे सुनाऊ ?
    डर हैं के इसके गम में घुल घुल के न मर जाऊँ || "
    ...........................चौ.छोटूराम ओहल्याण

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  11. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by raka View Post
    देश में एक नारा चला " हम दो हमारे दो " | अब बात देश की थी तो जाटों ने इस नारे को सर आँखों पे लेना ही था | पर इसमें अपनी तरफ से थोड़ा सा संसोधन कर दिया की बालक दो हो पर दोनों छोरे ही हो क्योंकि एक आँख का के बंद करना और के खोलना | इस आँख खोलन के चक्कर में यह भूल गए के आगे चल कर इनके घर क्यूकर खुलेंगे ? इस समस्या को बढाने में सबसे बड़ा योगदान रहा नारी जाति का | नारी ही नारी की सबसे बड़ी दुश्मन हैं | सांसु बहु के दिमाग में बैठा देती के पोते का मूंह देखना हैं | छोरा माँ की बात पर एतराज करे तो उस पर लांछन लग जाए की यो तो बहु का गुलाम हो लिया | मर्द जात से यह औरत की गुलामी वाला लांछन बर्दास्त नहीं होता तो इस लांछन से बेहतर हैं की माँ की मान ली जाए | जबकि बेटी हमेशा बाप की लाडली होती हैं | इन सबके के चक्कर में आज हालत यह हो गए की गाँव में भैंस की साईं वाला भी सगाई वाला दिखने लगा | पर अब हालात पहले से सुधर रहे हैं लोगो के समस्या समझ आ रही हैं |
    Friend,


    You have rightly said that due to shortage of would be 'brides' people have come to realize the evil effects of the problem created during the last few years.

    Hope that more awareness on the issue will be helpful in rooting out the menace of killing the girl child before birth completely in near future.

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  13. #27
    Friends,
    On the issue of save girl child, on the initiative of Smt. Neelam Pradeep Kasni, IAS, Karnal Deputy Commissioner, various social groups joined hands and celebrated Lohari in a unique way. It was a mini jamboree of newly born girl child as hundreds of parents, braving cold wave conditions, turned up to participate in the "mass Lohri celebration for Girl Child", especially planned for girl child born during the past one year.

    The objective of celebrating Lohri of girl child was to end gender discrimination, which was leading to social crimes like 'female foeticide' and 'dowry deaths' and to send a clear message that ages old traditions perpetuating exploitation of women must end.

    regards.

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  15. #28
    Daybefore yesterday, there was a servay report on the subject in the Times of India, the lowest % of girls are from jat area-Mahasan, sonipat, panipat, rohtak, Agra, samli. Is not a shame for the community

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  17. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by Fateh View Post
    Daybefore yesterday, there was a servay report on the subject in the Times of India, the lowest % of girls are from jat area-Mahasan, sonipat, panipat, rohtak, Agra, samli. Is not a shame for the community
    Perhaps, this type of information will exhort the people to rise to the occasion and take to introspection as what can be done in the matter.

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  19. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by DrRajpalSingh View Post
    Friends,
    On the issue of save girl child, on the initiative of Smt. Neelam Pradeep Kasni, IAS, Karnal Deputy Commissioner, various social groups joined hands and celebrated Lohari in a unique way. It was a mini jamboree of newly born girl child as hundreds of parents, braving cold wave conditions, turned up to participate in the "mass Lohri celebration for Girl Child", especially planned for girl child born during the past one year.

    The objective of celebrating Lohri of girl child was to end gender discrimination, which was leading to social crimes like 'female foeticide' and 'dowry deaths' and to send a clear message that ages old traditions perpetuating exploitation of women must end.

    regards.
    A very good initiative by Smt. Neelam Pradeep Kasni, who happens to be a Punjabi-turned-Jaatni - wife of Mr. Pardeep Kasni (a friend and comrade-in-arms (with red flag) of yesteryears).
    Last edited by singhvp; January 16th, 2012 at 07:19 PM.

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  21. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by Fateh View Post
    Daybefore yesterday, there was a servay report on the subject in the Times of India, the lowest % of girls are from jat area-Mahasan, sonipat, panipat, rohtak, Agra, samli. Is not a shame for the community
    Bahrana and Dimana have recorded the most depressing sex ratio in Jhajjar district, hitting rock bottom on the charts with 774 girls per 1000 boys as per the census 2011 figures. The Haryana health department had revealed that village Bahrana, located on the Rohtak-Jhajjar road, had a sex ratio of 378 girls per 1000 boys in the year 2010. The adjoining village of Dimana is not far behind with a sex ratio of just 444 girls for every 1000 boys.

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  23. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by VPannu View Post
    Bahrana and Dimana have recorded the most depressing sex ratio in Jhajjar district, hitting rock bottom on the charts with 774 girls per 1000 boys as per the census 2011 figures. The Haryana health department had revealed that village Bahrana, located on the Rohtak-Jhajjar road, had a sex ratio of 378 girls per 1000 boys in the year 2010. The adjoining village of Dimana is not far behind with a sex ratio of just 444 girls for every 1000 boys.
    Shocking statistics!!!!!!!!!!

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  25. #33
    There is need to understand Selective Female Infanticide and Dowry in historical perspective. There is book where author's research claimed that during imperial rule Britishers smartly moulded this tradition in to customary Laws. Book's name is - ‘Dowry Murder, The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime’ By Veena Talwar Oldenburg.

    http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chap...-Punjab-1.aspx

    I am pasting certain excerpts from author's interview along with chapter readings for better and deep understanding of the thread subject.


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    ... in its origins dowry was one of the few indigenous, women-centered institutions in an overwhelmingly patriarchal and agrarian society. Historically, it was an index of the ‘appreciation’ bestowed upon a daughter in her natal village, and not a groom’s prerogative to make demands on the girl’s family. The dowry-infanticide blight was used to justify the annexation of India. Colonialism, it was claimed was a civilizing mission.





    ....The problem of women worsened following the British decision to codify all customary law. A key word like ‘local’ which meant village in customary law, came to be transformed to mean ‘caste’ or ‘tribe.’ This shift in terminology had implications for women, since they were now seen to belong to patriarchal lineage rather than localities. The whole attempt was to translate social and customary practice, which was flexible, into legal codes from which women were excluded.

    Even more significant was the act that colonial administration replaced the indigenous version of democracy in which villagers had representatives with mechanisms of direct control. The British courts replaced the authority of the village panchayat with the patwari-the man who kept village records-by making him a paid employee of the state. This conferred enormous powers on someone who was earlier seen as a servant of the farmers.






    ......Female Infanticide – a new historical understanding of the issue emerges when it is seen that that as the East India Company discovered female infanticide they used their knowledge to further their own political ends by attributing purely cultural reasons for the crime, which in fact, had social and economic causes exacerbated by their own policies.

    Starting as a trading company moving on to the annexation of Bengal, Punjab and Oudh by 1856, the East India Company faced public outrage in Britain. The development of explanations that described and blamed indigenous culture for some of its own miscalculations was used to appease its detractors at home. This strategy is better known as her “civilizing mission” with Hindu culture as its prime target.

    The crime was noted and condemned selectively. For e.g. in 1851, the Sikh Bedis were found guilty of female infanticide. This discovery became political capital for the British who justify two unsanctioned bloody wars with the Sikhs that led to the annexation of their fertile land. In the same year, the British overlooked female infanticide amongst the Jats for two reasons. One they were favorite recruits of the British Indian army because of their strong physiques and martial qualities. Two Jats received bride price for their daughter’s from boy’s family because their daughters worked in the fields unlike Khatri or Brahmin daughters.

    British economic policy resulted in impoverishment of the farmer, mortality rates from famines grew the Crown seeked to blame the wasteful expenditure during marriages as one of the reasons for the state of the Indian peasantry, refer chapter 4. Further cost of marriage went up after 1853 app. The British reduction or outright abolition of the customary subsidies given to the village heads by Muslim, Hindu and Sikh rulers for the maintenance of village guest house, oil lamp, upkeep of shrines and payment to musicians made hospitality during weddings more costly. Inflation that accompanied the steady rise in the price of land stood on their heads, the old equations of movable property for the daughters as against immovable property based on virilocality for the sons. And the increased circulation of cash and an ever-increasing range of consumer goods, chiefly British imports, generated a clamor for these items to be included in dowry.



    ...The Jats were a numerous and widely dispersed agricultural caste whose members included Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims too known as Meos. All of them believed in the practice of bride price yet female infanticide was reported amongst them. However, Edwardes ignored it perhaps because of the political importance of Jats & Muslims to the British hold over Punjab. Further Edwardes had made up his mind that Muslims cannot commit female infanticide because he believed that they do not have caste and they do not give dowries. Edwardes’s view of female infanticide became increasingly communal. Disproportionately high female infant mortality among the Muslims in the Punjab showed up in district after district, year after year, but official prevarication prevailed. It is only after partition when Punjabi Hindus fled to India did international agencies gather fresh statistics on sex ratios and exposed the extent of female infanticide in Muslims.

    Soon report after report were produced that looked similar to Edwardes report. They said that the Rajputs, Khatris and other high-caste Hindus were unable to break out of the financially self-destructive cycle of marriage expenses that could not be changed and girl children had been killed in consequence, which the British had mercifully ended. Punjab officers had become just as vested in proclaiming these ills and passing laws to curb wedding expenses, as were their counterparts elsewhere. South India, where female infanticide might have been found as a practice only amongst the lowest and poorest castes, was never brought into the same net, nor was eastern Bengal, which is now the Islamic state of Bangladesh.

    On 18/3/1870 the govt of India enacted the Prevention of Murder of Female Infants Act. It was to be enforced only in the first instance of Northwestern provinces, to the Punjab and to Oudh. The act was brief and essentially unenforceable. It is easy to imagine that the possibilities of corruption and genuine error must have made this law and its enforcement a nightmare for all. An inexplicable move only after 36 years of the passing of the Act seems only to underscore the political nature of this entire exercise for the British. British officials claimed eradication of this timeless practice and in 1906 the act was quietly repealed.




    ...Prem Chowdhry has keen analysed the Jats preference for males in the colonial period, when their military and agricultural skills were in high demand. Rainfall dependant Haryana, a part of colonial Punjab was a region that was prone to drought and had a large section of Jat farmers engaged in subsistence farming. The landowners were entirely dependant on family labor and this reinforced what is common to peasant economies, namely the desire for a son. The usefulness of girls was acknowledged but daughters were destined to marry early and prove their worth as wives & daughter-in-laws. This preference for sons subsumed all castes, tribes and religions in the colonial period. The female sex ratio was 866:1000 in 1886 and 874:1000 in 1991 not much of a difference.

    It is not surprising that recent surveys by most international agencies show that son preference is firmly in place in many countries around the world which suggests that ownership of land and most paying jobs in male hands. The Ravindram report of 1986 shows Pakistan at the top of the list with Nepal having the second highest son preference. The Report also alerts us to a similar situation in Victorian England citing R Wall (1981), who concludes that extensive mortality data in England pointed out to an abnormally high death rate of girls in the middle and late 19th century, attributed to the social & economic disadvantages of women and girls esp. at the lower levels.

    It is obvious that not all female children were killed in the areas where infanticide was practiced. So the problem is to disentangle the logic – economic, social, cultural and political that made a greater number of men necessary for the communities where female infanticide was practiced.



    http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chap...-Punjab-1.aspx
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    "All I am trying to do is bridge the gap between Jats and Rest of World"

    As I shall imagine, so shall I become.

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  27. #34
    sorry, was a duplicate post
    Last edited by spdeshwal; January 17th, 2012 at 06:47 AM.

  28. #35
    Quote Originally Posted by DrRajpalSingh View Post
    Friends,
    On the issue of save girl child, on the initiative of Smt. Neelam Pradeep Kasni, IAS, Karnal Deputy Commissioner, various social groups joined hands and celebrated Lohari in a unique way. It was a mini jamboree of newly born girl child as hundreds of parents, braving cold wave conditions, turned up to participate in the "mass Lohri celebration for Girl Child", especially planned for girl child born during the past one year.

    The objective of celebrating Lohri of girl child was to end gender discrimination, which was leading to social crimes like 'female foeticide' and 'dowry deaths' and to send a clear message that ages old traditions perpetuating exploitation of women must end.

    regards.
    Thank you sir for sharing the infomation!
    I was fortunate to have attended 'Haven' on this auspicious day at the residence of Smt. Kavita and Kapil Kalakal!
    The couple was blessed with a baby girl 'Kengel' on 9th of January, 2012!
    My wife performed the haven!

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  30. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by spdeshwal View Post
    Thank you sir for sharing the infomation!
    I was fortunate to have attended 'Haven' on this auspicious day at the residence of Smt. Kavita and Kapil Kalakal!
    The couple was blessed with a baby girl 'Kengel' on 9th of January, 2012!
    My wife performed the haven!
    Friend,

    Kudos to all of you.

    Worthy example must be followed by every right thinking person.

    Regards

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  32. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by VPannu View Post
    Bahrana and Dimana have recorded the most depressing sex ratio in Jhajjar district, hitting rock bottom on the charts with 774 girls per 1000 boys as per the census 2011 figures. The Haryana health department had revealed that village Bahrana, located on the Rohtak-Jhajjar road, had a sex ratio of 378 girls per 1000 boys in the year 2010. The adjoining village of Dimana is not far behind with a sex ratio of just 444 girls for every 1000 boys.

    Yes brother you are right, I mentioned panipat by mistake in place of Bahadurgarh, I AM SORRY FOR MENTIONING PANIPAT.

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  34. #38
    According to the Tribune report (dated, 18 January, 2012) Jhajjar district has skewed gender ratio with 774 females against 1,000 males in the 0-6 age group according to the latest census report. This has awakened the district administration. As such, all sonography machines in ultrasound centres of the district have been put on the 'active-tracker' advanced technological equipment connected online with a central monitoring system to check pre-natal sex determination tests in the district. This will help in curbing the misuse of ultra-sound machine through its round-the-clock tab on them.Would other districts follow the step to curb the menace of injustice to unborn girl child!
    Last edited by DrRajpalSingh; January 19th, 2012 at 11:17 PM.

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  36. #39
    The average national sex ration in India is 940 as per the latest reports of the Census 2011. Sirsa district administration has decided to keep tabs on ultrasound centres because in this district the figure for Sex ratio stands at 896 per 1,000 male. the silver line in this aspect is that as compared to the 2001 census figure of 882, there is slight improvement of 14 per thousand. According to 'The Tribune' report dated 16th March 2012, after Jhajjar, Sirsa has emerged another district to adopt keeping tabs on the ultra-sound centres.

    It is hoped that the situation will further improve in the days to come.

    The willing cooperation of the general public can play a long way to curtail the menace of aborting female child before they see the light of the day because the contribution of the educational institutions, media and NGOs could result in achieving miraculous results in this noble task.

    To improve the ratio further the concept of 'Ladka Ladki ek saman' needs wide publicity and acceptability.

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  38. #40
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    Not just in urban centres around Delhi, this practice has also started in some sections of Indian community living in USA and Canada. A recent article -

    http://www.indianexpress.com/news/fe...canada/908231/


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    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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