Violence against women exists in various forms, in all societies, the world over. However, the recognition that elimination of gender-based violence is central to equality, development and peace, is recent. Female foeticide is now more widespread in the country than ever before. This practice was restricted to few states a few years ago but has now spread all over the country. Girls and women not only face inequality, they are even denied the right to be born if their families do not wish so. In fact many families do not wish their women folk to deliver baby daughters.
To bring awareness against female foeticide the NHRM, National Rural Health Mission, UT, Chandigarh organized a campaign 'Save girl Child' week in which Kinjal, a kindergarten student of Chitkara International School was selected and her posters have been displayed in different health institutions of Chandigarh administration. The principal of Chitkara International School Niyati Chitkara believes that “As one grows through the difficult experiences of puberty, enjoying the liberty of education, exploring the joys of womanhood, it is nauseating to know that someone will never feel the thrill of dancing in the first shower of rain, never breathe the air of freedom, will never be the person she could have been, without any fault of hers but only because she was a girl, a woman in the making”.