India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio, its 927 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. UN figures out that about 750,000 girls are aborted every year in India. Amniocentesis started in India in 1974 to detect fetal abnormalities. But these tests were used to detect gender & became a major contributor to bias against a girl child. Though sex detection is prohibited, there are still illegal health care facilities which offer services related to sex detection. Every sixth girl child's death in India is due to gender discrimination. Female feticide and infanticide is not the only issues with a girl child in India. At every stage of life, girl child is discriminated & neglected for basic nutrition, education & living standard. The issue of illiteracy & lack of education to girls is closely related to poverty. These poor people don't have enough funds to educate all their children, so they prefer giving education to boys & keep the girls away from schools, so that they can help in the fields of work to support the family. Apart from Metro cities & big Towns, the higher education to girls is still a big question, as most of the school giving higher education are situated out of the villages or small towns, in such cases parents are afraid to send their girls to long distance of the fear of molestation or sexual harassment. One more major concern in India is child marriage which is a curse to women of the society. When a girl is in growing state, she doesn't have a completely developed & functional reproductive system and at such a state, getting pregnant is the worst as it increases drastically the chances of female sterilisation, infant deaths, complication in child birth & maternal mortality etc. This also increases the cases of HIV & STD. In short, it leaves a deepening impact on the physical, psychological & emotional development of the girl child & thus snatching their childhood & innocence from them. We should solely condemn the child marriage and encourage being born as a girl child a privilege.
