Rajaram Satapathy TNN
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government machinery swung into action on Monday following the recovery of body parts of newborn babies and foetuses the day before from a pit near a clinic in Nayagarh. Orissa chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy, health and family welfare secretary Chinmay Basu and senior police officers rushed to the spot.
“There is some lapse somewhere. We are looking into it,’’ the chief secretary said. An emergency meeting has been called to take stock of the situation. Meanwhile, three more foetuses were found in a drain in Golanthara village in Ganjam district.
On Sunday, the police had recovered a large number of polythene bags containing body parts of nearly 25 newborn babies from a garbage pit close to a private nursing home at Nabaghanpur village. The foetuses were recovered inside polythene bags. “We suspect that the foetuses were dumped after illegal abortion at a private nursing home,” Sadar police station inspector Girijanandan Rath said. The police has sent the foetuses to the MKCG Medical College Hospital here for a forensic test; the results are expected tomorrow.
A report from Nayagarh said the sub-divisional judicial magistrate has denied bail to the two people including a woman who were arrested by the police last night on the charge of abetting the crime. They were forwarded to jail, the police said. The police said it arrested Sabita Sahu (48), wife of a doctor working with the government and was running the Krishna clinic.
Last week a villager had stumbled upon seven foetuses near a hill in the same district.
Studies reveal that the number of girl children is diminishing not only in Nayagarh but also in other parts of the state. A report prepared by the School of Women Studies, Utkal University, says 13 out of the 30 districts in the state are showing a declining sex ratio since 1921. Nayagarh district tops the list with 901. Most of the fewer-girl districts like Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal, Khurda and Puri are in the highly literate and economically prosperous coastal belt. In contrast, tribal districts have a “favourable” sex ratio like Nabarangpur at 1,002, Koraput 993, Kalahandi and Malkangiri 990. In Rayagada, Kandhamal, Nuapada and Kalahandi districts, the situation is not so lopsided.
“Fewer girls indicates an emerging threat. Sex selective abortions are more common in urban areas and has accelerated the fall in girl population,” said Amrita Mishra Patel, who conducted the study.
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government machinery swung into action on Monday following the recovery of body parts of newborn babies and foetuses the day before from a pit near a clinic in Nayagarh. Orissa chief secretary Ajit Kumar Tripathy, health and family welfare secretary Chinmay Basu and senior police officers rushed to the spot.
“There is some lapse somewhere. We are looking into it,’’ the chief secretary said. An emergency meeting has been called to take stock of the situation. Meanwhile, three more foetuses were found in a drain in Golanthara village in Ganjam district.
On Sunday, the police had recovered a large number of polythene bags containing body parts of nearly 25 newborn babies from a garbage pit close to a private nursing home at Nabaghanpur village. The foetuses were recovered inside polythene bags. “We suspect that the foetuses were dumped after illegal abortion at a private nursing home,” Sadar police station inspector Girijanandan Rath said. The police has sent the foetuses to the MKCG Medical College Hospital here for a forensic test; the results are expected tomorrow.
A report from Nayagarh said the sub-divisional judicial magistrate has denied bail to the two people including a woman who were arrested by the police last night on the charge of abetting the crime. They were forwarded to jail, the police said. The police said it arrested Sabita Sahu (48), wife of a doctor working with the government and was running the Krishna clinic.
Last week a villager had stumbled upon seven foetuses near a hill in the same district.
Studies reveal that the number of girl children is diminishing not only in Nayagarh but also in other parts of the state. A report prepared by the School of Women Studies, Utkal University, says 13 out of the 30 districts in the state are showing a declining sex ratio since 1921. Nayagarh district tops the list with 901. Most of the fewer-girl districts like Jagatsinghpur, Dhenkanal, Khurda and Puri are in the highly literate and economically prosperous coastal belt. In contrast, tribal districts have a “favourable” sex ratio like Nabarangpur at 1,002, Koraput 993, Kalahandi and Malkangiri 990. In Rayagada, Kandhamal, Nuapada and Kalahandi districts, the situation is not so lopsided.
“Fewer girls indicates an emerging threat. Sex selective abortions are more common in urban areas and has accelerated the fall in girl population,” said Amrita Mishra Patel, who conducted the study.
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