Tuesday 22 May 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
Website on girls' issue to be launched tomorrow

Child Relief and You (CRY), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) will launch a microsite on the eve of the Girl Child Day on September 24

New Delhi: Child Relief and You (CRY), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) will launch a microsite on the eve of the Girl Child Day on September 24.

The microsite will provide an interactive platform to people, which, besides providing information on skewed sex ratio and various campaigns, will allow one to express his or her opinion on the issue, reports IANS.

With videos, opinion polls, articles, volunteer activities, campaign material downloads, e-newsletter and blogs, the site will help one explore the not often talked about reasons which give rise to such practices as female foeticide.

"We believe the girl is a child first and that gender is merely descriptive. Yet statistics show that girls have not fared well so far, and this is not due to their lack of capability, but because people around incapacitate them," Meenakshi Kohli of CRY said.

This platform will help people express their opinion on the whole issue and initiate movements to turn around this negative trend, she added.

Well this can be an exciting new forum in a series of niche initiatives such as www.meowfm.ning.com, a social networking site specifically for women from the house of Meow 104.8 FM, India's first just for women radio station by the India Today group.

Skewed sex ratio is a cause of most concern and the site coming up by CRY and other initiatives like the one started by Srimani Gurudwara Prabhandak Samiti, Amritsar to give a tree sampling to all female devotees covered by iGovernment, can go a long way in making people realise that female foeticide is indeed a heinous crime and more such forums are needed to take the point home.

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