Girl child

Meet Dr Ganesh Rakh, the mind behind a beautiful initiative to promote gender equality, wherein every girl child's birth is free of cost.

After losing his young daughter, Sarpanch Shyam Sundar Paliwal pledged to plant 111 trees for every girl child born in Piplantri village, Rajasthan. Today his promise has turned into an entire forest.

Runjun Begum from Assam was married at 16 and physically abused after giving birth to two daughters. But this didn’t deter her from starting her own business that empowers other women and makes her financially independent.

Thianal village in Odisha is the second village in the state to attain this status and the first in its district. A people's initiative has prevented children below the legal age to wed.

At Pune's Medicare Hospital, the birth of every girl child is an occasion to celebrate. Meet Dr Ganesh Rakh, the mind behind a beautiful initiative to promote gender equality, wherein every girl child's birth is free of cost.

From increased financial limitations to an amplified digital divide, the pandemic has drastically affected girl child education in India. But these individuals have a solution.

T Bhoobalan, CEO of Bagalkot Zilla Parishad in Karnataka, adopted a multi-pronged approach to tackle the sharp increase in child marriages amid the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.

From the day she entered her aunt’s house, Anju was forced to do house chores. Her aunt would wake her at the crack of dawn and Anju’s first task was to prepare tea for 15 people. If she made a mistake, reprimands followed fast.

When she was a little more than a year old, Amita told her about the adoption and her birth mother through stories and pictures.

“Around 25 years back, people in rural areas were so open about killing their daughters, they would not mind showing the places where the foetuses were dumped," says the courageous 'Daughter of Punjab'.