SGPC opens centre to save girls
Tribune News Service
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 23
Perturbed by the declining sex ration attaining alarming proportions in the state, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today opened the Bal Sambhal Kender on the premises of the Sri Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib.
The centre was inaugurated by SGPC chief Avtar Singh. The kender will take care of infant girl children abandoned by their families. The centre is initially being set up in seven rooms on the premises of the gurdwara.
Avtar Singh said the committee had called upon the masses in case they did not want to bring up girls, they could leave them at the nearest gurdwara.
Besides, the kendra would also take in baby girls found abandoned in public parks, railway compartments and garbage heaps and those belonging to poor families.
