Computer Group

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By:- Vardan, Yash, Yashoda, Tushar
IX ‘O’
 An Introduction
What are social evils?
Examples of social evils that are still
prevalent in India.
How can we exclude them from India?
What are social evils?
 Social evils are issues or matters that directly or
indirectly affect one or more members of society
thus harming the welfare of that society.
 They destroy peace and harmony of a country as a
whole.
 They break the moral values of the society and
the ethnicity of a country.
Some of the social evils are:-
 Dowry
 Human Trafficking
 Gender Inequality
 Female Foeticide
 Child Labor
 Domestic Violence
 Caste System
 Untouchability
 Child Marriage
 Sati
 DOWRY
 It is transfer of parental property at the marriage of a daughter.
 In India, dowry(known as Dahej in Hindi) is a payment of cash or
gifts from the bride’s family to the bridegroom’s family upon
marriage.
 It may include cash, jewellery, electrical appliances, furniture,
bedding, utensils, etc.
 Payment of dowry is now prohibited under The 1961 Dowry
Prohibition Act in Indian Civil Law.
 Despite anti-dowry laws in India, it is still a common illegal
practice.
 Dowry Death
 This is the most prevalent social
evil existing in our society. The
helpless wife in this case becomes
the victim if she is unable to meet
the unreasonable demands of
dowry by the husband and in-
laws. The gravity of this offence
can be gauged from the increasing
number of dowry death cases in
the country.
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is an act of recruiting,
transporting, transferring, harbouring or receiving
a person through a use of force, coercion or other
means, for the purpose of exploiting them.
 Every year, thousands of men, women and
children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their
own countries and abroad.
 In simple it is the business in which human is a
commodity. Human Trafficking is often said to be
modern day or global slavery.
Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of
human rights by international conventions.
It may include Things like Bonded labor, Forced
labor or Child labor.
Stop Human Trafficking
 Gender Inequality
Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment of
individuals based on their gender.
Gender is constructed both socially through social
interactions as well as biologically through chromosomes,
brain structure, and hormonal differences.
Girls are treated as inferiors to boys at places like workplace,
through wage differences and at home.
Boys are given priority as they will be heir in the future. They
get all what they want but girls are often treated badly and
sparred of a number of things like education, parenting,
marriage, etc.
 Female Foeticide

Female Foeticide is an act in which people intentionally kill

girl infants before their birth or when they are in the foetus of
a mother.
Sex determination tests through ultrasound make it possible
to determine the gender of the unborn baby.
Some people believes that a girl child is a curse to their home
and they kill the foetus of the mother if the gender results
show feminine.
Female foeticide has been linked to the arrival, in the early
1990s, of affordable ultrasound technology and its
widespread adoption in India.
The government has officially banned sex determination
through ultrasound in order to increase female sex ratio.
A girl child may
be a future
Kalpana Chawla,
Indira Gandhi or
Bachendri Pal.
So why kill girls.
Help stop
Female
Foeticide.
Why?
 Child labor
Child labour refers to the employment of children at
regular and sustained labour or labor without wages.
Children work at the cost of their right to education
which leaves them permanently trapped in the poverty
cycle, sadly without the education and literacy required
for better-paying jobs.
The 2001 national census of India estimated the total
number of child labour, aged 5–14, to be at 12.6 million.
The government has declared it illegal in India.
Globally the incidence of child labor decreased from 25%
to 10% between 1960 and 2003, according to the World
Bank.
 Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence is a pattern of behavior which

involves violence or other abuse by one person against
another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or
cohabitation.
Domestic violence can take a number of forms, including
physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious,
and sexual abuse, or death.
 Domestic murders include stoning, bride burning, honor
killings, and dowry deaths.
Globally, however, a wife or female partner is more
commonly the victim of such violence.
Domestic violence occurs when the abuser believes that
abuse is acceptable, justified, or unlikely to be reported.
 Caste System
The caste system in India is a system of social
scarification which has pre-modern origins and was
transformed by the British.
It consists of two different concepts, Varna and jāti
which may be regarded as different levels of
analysis of this system.
The caste system exists today also because of the
developments during the collapse of Mughal era
and the British colonial regime in India.
Caste-based differences have also been practiced in
other regions and religions in the Indian
subcontinent like Nepalese Buddhism, Christianity,
Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
The caste system is now a punishable offence.
 Untouchability
Untouchability in can be understood as a practice whereby
a particular class or caste of persons are discriminated with
on the ground of their being born in that particular caste.
It is usually associated with the Hindu caste system, but
similar groups exist outside Hinduism, for example
the Burkeman in Japan, blacks in America and South Africa.
The discrimination can be in the form of physical or social
boycott from the society. For instance: the members of so-
called higher castes such as Brahmin, Kshatriyas etc. would
not dine or sit with a person of Bhangi class.
Gandhi Ji called these people ‘Harijans’ or children of god
and supported them against the discrimination.
 Child Marriage
Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union entered
into by an individual before reaching the age of 18.
In certain countries, even when the legal marriage age is 18,
cultural traditions take priority over legislative law.
Child marriage affects both boys and girls, though the
overwhelming majority of those affected are poor girls.
Child marriages were common throughout history for a variety
of reasons, including poverty, insecurity, as well as for political
and financial reason
The Child Marriage Restraint Act, also called the Sarda Act, was
a law to restrict the practice of child marriage, enacted on 1
April 1930. Its goal was to eliminate the dangers placed on
young girls who could not handle the stress of married life and
avoid early deaths.
 Sati
Sati is a Hindu custom in India in which the widow was
burnt to ashes on her dead husband's pyre.
Basically the custom of Sati was believed to be a
voluntary Hindu act in which the woman voluntary
decides to end her life with her husband after his death.
 The practice is considered to have originated within the
warrior aristocracy on the Indian subcontinent.
The practice was initially legalized by the colonial British
officials specifying conditions when sati was allowed;
then the practice was outlawed in 1829 in their
territories in India, followed up by laws with a general
ban for the whole of India.
the Indian Government enacted the Rajasthan Sati
Prevention Ordinance, on 1 October 1987 and later
passed the Commission of Sati Prevention Act.
 Mitigation of
Social Evils
A number of steps have been taken by the government and many
organizations to abolish the prevalent social evils.
 Many laws have been implemented for the prevention of these acts.
But the common people have a role to play.
The first step towards mitigation is public awareness. Each and every
individual must take the oath to do his/her path in abolishing these evils
The public should be aware to report of any such incidence of the
respective authority. The victim must raise the voice and resist such acts.
 Many other such simple steps by a society as a whole can mitigate the
social evils and make social life happier.
Thank You