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People must prevent female infanticide: Minister

By Our Staff Reporter

ERODE, JULY 3. People must take the initiative to prevent female infanticide and also abandoning female children on the streets, said the Social Welfare Minister, P. Valarmathy, today. She was inaugurating the seminar on Protection to Abandoned Children and Legal Adoption, conducted by the Social Welfare Department. In Erode, Salem, Namakkal and Coimbatore districts such cases were high and urged the poor families to make use of the cradle baby system.

She said in Erode district, complaints had been received about the illegal adoption of children. The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR and CE) Minister, P.C. Ramasamy, who received it, said the HR and CE department was running Anbu Illam in big temples to maintain poor children.

The District Collector, D. Karthikeyan, who presided, said still awareness among the rural women about female infanticides was very poor and wanted the people not to kill their illegitimate child or female child.

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