http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-04/india/29735116_1_girl-child-dalit-village-determination-tests
Girl child is welcome here
I P Singh, TNN Jul 4, 2011, 04.06am IST
This predominantly Dalit village, where around half of the earning
hands are daily-wagers, girl children are welcomed with open arms.
Among the ten best districts in the country which have improved the
child sex ratio, Kapurthala comes at number one with a child sex ratio
of 872 in 2011, up from 785 in the 2001 census.
And it's villages like Nangal where there are at present 112 boys and
128 girls in the 0 to 6 years age group which has put Kapurthala at
the top spot.
"I have never seen parents complaining and for the last several years
we have been noting that the girl births in the village are more,"
said Kamla Devi, a village resident and anganwari worker.
She said that she records the pregnancy of every woman in the village
and maintained complete data about the expected deliveries but never
felt that people loathed birth of a girl child.
Her sentiment is shared by Hardev Kaur, who has seven grandchildren
out of which five are girls.
"Though sometimes we feel concerned that we will need money to marry
them off but we have never felt burdened. We have always welcomed
girls," said Kaur. The village has also received an award of Rs 1.5
lakh from the state government recently for improving sex ratio.
Interestingly, an improved ratio in the village, with an average
literacy rate, has come naturally without any special efforts to
discourage sex determination tests.
"The village is essentially Dalit and we have never felt any dislike
for the girl child in the village. They are not very educated and
economically also only a few families can be considered in the middle
class whose kin are abroad," said Jarnail Nangal, a former Panchayat
member of the village. "I never faced any adverse comments from my
in-laws when I gave birth to two daughters," said Sunita Rani, a
panchayat member.
Dyal Kaur, who runs another anganwari centre in the village, said that
she was getting most of the children from economically weaker sections
and a majority of them were girls, but she could never felt that their
parents did not encourage the girls to study. For village sarpanch
Sunita Rani, the improved sex ratio did not mean any extra effort. "We
have never seen any special campaign to teach people not to
discriminate between girls and boys," said Rani.
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