Meena Sharma (c.1984 - ) is an Indian journalist who was awarded the

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in 2016. She has identified scandals of children who did not look after their elderly parents and the large number of abortions that were taking place of pregnancies that were predicted to deliver a female child.

Career

Sharma has been an editor at Patrika TV and as an anchor for

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on the show "Nayika". On News 18 she hosted Desh Ki Baat and "Dr Meena Sharma Ke Sath". The Ministry of Woman, Children and Development acknowledged her help in created the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act in 2007 after Sharma had conducted a sting operation to expose the treatment of older people. The act made heirs legally responsible to pay for the maintenance of older people.

Awards

In a different operation she revealed how 500 organisations over six Indian states were supplying sex determination followed by illegal sex determined abortions. At the time she was a 26 year old freelance journalist working with

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, the 24 hour Hindi news channel in

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. For this work, she was chosen to receive the

/Stree Shakti Puraskar on International Women's Day in 2016. The award was made by the President

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at the

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in New Delhi. Mukherjee and the Prime Minister

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gave speeches about India's need to empower women highlighting the problem of the higher number of male babies due to some parents choosing to have an abortion if their child is female. * Panna Dhai National Award for her work with the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Meena Living people Indian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Nari Shakti Puraskar winners 1984 births