India will offer free secondary school and university education to girls who are their parents’ only child in an effort to curb population growth and especially end the practice of selective abortions.
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Some experts though warn that the plan will have a limited impact.
“Female feticide has been found to be widespread among the urban rich who can afford to send their children to school. The latest offer will have no effect on them,” said Narayan Banerjee, director of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies.
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