Shillong, Jan 29: Meghalaya State Social Welfare Board (MSSWB) celebrated the National Girl Child Day on Tuesday.
Speaking at the occasion as the chief guest Meghalaya State Social Welfare Board (MSSWB) chairman OB Tariang lamented over the rampant discrimination of a girl child besides expressing her anguish over the news of rampant discrimination of girl child in other parts of the country and said the girl child are not getting the rights and opportunity that normally the boy child gets.
“The status of discrimination of girl child in Meghalaya is not very different from other states in the country as survey report suggests”, Tariang said.
She also said that Meghalaya is a state which theoretically gives importance to the girl child unlike in other parts of the country but, she rued, that the daily reports in newspapers suggest that Meghalaya also lives with the horror of sexual harassment, molestation and other crimes against women and children.
Tariang felt that such acts are committed because of lack of fellowship and guidance by the parents of those who commit such crime leading the children to live a life of temptation and to commit such offences.
While underlining the importance of the role of traditional institutions and ngos in fighting such menace by cooperating with the government and taking active part in the fight against discrimination and crimes against women and child girl. She highlighted the right of a girl child as she said they are the daughters of the present day and future mothers.(SP News)
