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"Almost 300 Indian girls with the name &amp;#039;Nakusa&amp;#039;, which means &amp;#039;unwanted&amp;#039; in Hindi, were celebrating yesterday after being granted new names. The ceremony, in the Satara district of Maharashtra, was set up to fight the country&amp;#039;s widespread discrimination. 285 girls were presented with official certificates of their chosen names, along with a flower bouquet. &amp;quot;Now in school my classmates and friends will be calling me this new name, and that makes me very happy,&amp;quot; a 15-year-old girl told The AP, after choosing the name Ashmita, which means &amp;#039;rock hard&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Nakusa is a very negative name as far as female discrimination is concerned,&amp;quot; ceremony organiser Dr Bhagwan Pawar explained. This year&amp;#039;s census showed that the sex ratio in India had dropped to only 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of 6, reportedly due to the regular abortion of female foetuses. Girls are often seen as more of a burden on a family than boys because of the need to provide them with a dowry when they choose to marry. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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