#SelfieWithDaughter: Indian PM’s Campaign Unites The World

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To tackle India’s twisted sex ratio, India’s Prime Minister recently launched a social media campaign urging parents to tweet photos of themselves with their daughters and help improve welfare of girls and combat female infanticide in India. He asked them to use the hashtag #SelfieWithDaughter to educate people about the disproportionate gender ratio in India and the joy of daughters.

The idea was adopted from Haryana, an Indian state where a head of the village was seeking to improve the state’s reputation as the state with the worst sex ratio. Haryana, with just 834 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six years old, stood last in a list ranking states according to their child sex ratio in the 2011 census.

Thousands of people from India and abroad took to Twitter to post pictures of themselves with their daughters helping #SelfieWithDaughter trend worldwide in no time.


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The 2011 Census shows that there are 37 million more men than women in India. In 2014, a report by the United Nations Women titled “Sex Ratios and Gender Biased Sex Selection” found that India currently has 110 boys born for every 100 girls born; the typical sex ratio at birth is 105 males for every 100 females.  A report released by India’s Planning Commission for the years 2012-2017 called this imbalance as, “a silent demographic disaster in the making”.

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