Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Feb 14: To generate awareness among masses on the issue of female foeticide, an inter collegiate seminar and a film show on “Save the Girl Child” was organized by Department of Information & Public Relations, Udhampur in collaboration with Kalra College of Education, Udhampur in the college premises here today .
Chief Medical Officer, Udhampur, Dr. Arun Sharma was the chief guest on the occasion.
Eight students from four different Colleges including Govt. College for Women, Kalra College of Education, Bhartiya College of Education and Shivalik College of Education participated in the seminar.
Sugandhi for Govt. College for Women was adjudged best speaker while Manisha Sharma from Bhartiya College of Education and Mohd. Majnu from the host College remained second and third respectively.
While speaking on the occasion, Dr. Sharma urged upon the need for creating wide awareness among the masses about the sin of female foeticide and called for strict implementation of Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC & PNDT) Act. It was stressed to impart moral education to the students right from the primary stage to develop a society free from social evils.
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