Becky Blab

The government of Hyderabad effectively cracked down on diagnostic centres which seems to have achieved the desired effect:
“While in 72 per cent of cases, the addresses of the pregnant women were either not mentioned or not complete, in 91 per cent cases the details of the father of the child were not mentioned. Ultrasonography was [...]

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The Ministry of Women and Child Development is developing gender budgeting manuals to ensure that women related schemes receive adequate funds.  The manuals will be designed to reinforce the practice of gender budgeting at all levels of governance.
The WCD Ministry is assessing the impact of gender budgeting by other Ministries. The WCD Minister, Renuka Chowdary, [...]

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Renuka Chowdhury is requesting that female army officers be allowed to do combat duty. She also makes a good point that women officers’ service commission can only last a maximum of 14 years, thus making them ineligible for pension.
Her point is that since technology stands in for brute force nowadays, why keep women out of [...]

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The dust has barely just settled after last week’s remark by Minister for Women and Child Development Chowdhury urging women to buy condoms themselves because their husbands can’t be trusted. Ranjana Kumari’s main gripe is that Chowdhury to have more bark than bite, i.e. her plans are quite sensationalist and seem to have little promise [...]

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She’s at it again, most recently coming under fire for proposing the obligatory registering of pregnancies and government authorisation of abortions to check female foeticide/sex selective abortions (activists and the media here tend to use the former term in order to attract the public’s attention to the severity of the issue, but I will attempt [...]

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