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Right step

The CBSE directive to its affliated schools to provide free education to girl students from single child families is a step in the right direction. If India is to be a superpower, then indirect methods of population control must be encouraged by offering all kinds of incentives — financial and otherwise to single child families across the board.

The required funds can be raised through a special "national lottery" for the cause just as it is done in the U.K.

Pradeep S. Desai,
Chennai

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Girls are discriminated against the most in families that also have boys. They are rarely discriminated against in families with only girls or when the only child is a girl. The CBSE directive, therefore, may not help those in dire need.

S. Sita,
Kalpakkam, T.N.

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The "single girl child" concept needs to be clarified further. Is a family with one girl and one or more boys eligible for the fee waiver? If no, it amounts to gross discrimination.

K.A. Gopalakrishna Sharma,
Chennai

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