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New Delhi, June 9: President Pranab Mukherjee launched the ‘Selfie with Daughter‘ mobile application today. The application is meant as a follow-up to the successful social media campaign of the same name promoted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The application, like the earlier campaign, is meant to generate awareness against female foeticide, encourage parents to send their girls to school and to motivate society to feel proud to be parents of a girl child ultimately resulting in an improved child sex ratio. Users are required to upload photographs (Selfies) with their daughters and post them on the web platform.
While launching the application, President Mukherjee said, “Selfie with Daughter’ has become a worldwide movement against female foeticide and sex selection.” He urged believers in the cause to post lots of photos and make the campaign a success.
The ‘Selfie with Daughter’ campaign was initially started by Sunil Jaglan in June 2015 from his village of Bibipur in Haryana. Jaglan is a former sarpanch has been working in the field of women empowerment and village development. The campaign was started by Sunil Jaglan in June 2015 in village Bibipur in Haryana’s Jind district. The former sarpanch had been working in the field of women empowerment and village development.
The president expressed the hope that the ‘Selfie With Daughter’ app would eventually help in dealing with problems arising out of gender imbalance. Describing the app as an innovative concept and an act of gentle persuasion, Mukherjee congratulated Jaglan and said his efforts in initiating the campaign in Haryana were praiseworthy.
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