Thu, 17 May 2012 23:01:14
India welcomes ‘world’s seven billionth baby’

A baby declared as the world's seven billionth has been born in India, says child rights group Plan International.
Baby Nargis was born at 07:25 local time (01:55GMT) in Mall village in India's Uttar Pradesh state.
Plan International says Nargis has been chosen symbolically as it is not possible to know where exactly the seventh billion baby is born.
The United Nations estimated that on Monday 31 October, the world's population would reach seven billion.
Earlier on Monday, the Philippines also declared a symbolic seven billionth baby, a girl born in a Manila hospital.
Every minute, 51 babies are born in India, 11 of them in the most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
Nargis has been born to Vinita and Ajay who live in Mall village, nearly 30km (19 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow, a Plan International official told the BBC.


The daughter of a poor farmer, Nargis was chosen as the seventh billion baby to focus attention on the ills of female foeticide and India's skewed sex ratio, the organisation said.
Hundreds of thousands of female foetuses are aborted in India every year, even though sex-selective terminations and the use of ultrasound technology for foetal sex-determination are illegal there.

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