Our own ‘Satyamev Jayate’

As part of our Meri Shakti Meri Beti project, which aims to stop sex selective activities, we formed the Community Watch Group (CWG) for Dabri project area at the Aganwadi Centre, on 10th May. The CWG has been created so that vigil can be kept over the immediate society to help in curbing the declining sex ratio; ensure citizen participation in proper project implementation, to generate awareness at the grass root level about the negative consequences of female foeticide; and to increase awareness about the PCPNDT Act. CWG members have been selected from within the community, and include people from all age groups. They will counsel the high-risk families, newly-wed couples and parents of girl children.

Our work against Female Foeticide

With decades of experience in addressing pre-natal sex selection (previously termed “female foeticide”), CSR implemented Meri Shakti,Meri Beti (My Daughter, My Strength) project in 2007 in the three lowest sex-ratio districts of the Delhi namely Najafgarh, Narela and Punjabi Bagh with the support of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. Due to the continuing support of the government, and additional backing of WomenPowerConnect (WPC) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Meri Shakti, Meri Beti (MSMB) has since been implemented in the urban (May 2009 – April 2011) and rural (October 2010-August 2011) areas of Ambala and Kurukshetra districts of Haryana. MSMB was an action-based research project, which initially aimed to conduct a situational analysis on the basis of action taken by existing agencies on the issue of pre-natal sex selection, to identify an impact assessment of existing educational materials about and awareness of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostics Techniques (PC & PNDT) Act, and to generate further awareness of the issue.