Minutes of the Meeting with Meenal Gandhe

Meeting with Meenal Gandhi
Introduction: Meenal Gandhi(programme Manager)
Population first.

Meenal Gandhi is programme manager for LAADLI Campaign of Population First which runs and works under and with the help of NSS family of Mumbai University.Population First is working on save girl child& their basic theme is sex selection before or after birth which is prohibited .PC &PNDT is ACT which is implemented in 1994 & it is prohibited of Sex Selection
In our Meeting Meenal says “Gender is the top most & very important reason due to which women are mostly single parent”. According to her gender is the only reason on which all other factors age, interest, education, economic status, culture & tradition, need & other reasons are dependent on gender.
Shesaid in our society earlier women were forced to take custody of their children but this has increased a lot so that they themselves take custody of their children otherwise they could face society in which all womenaccepted their children . In our society all the responsibilities of children are given to women even though men can do everything except birth.
Miss Meenal suggested me to specify more the topic.My research question is – “Why women are mostly single parent?. According to Meenalour topic should be “Is Gender the reason, Why single parented families are headed by women?. She told suggest contacting Dr. Sharda Director of Population First for more help related to this topic. She also provide me study material on PC&PNDT Act 1991.
The experience was good to meet with Meenal. I would like to meet Meenal again during my project