National Girl Child Day, celebrated on January 24thevery year, aims to highlight the inequalities faced by a majority of the girls in India.Female infanticide is a problem that has plagued our country for decades. Spreading awareness on the importance of having a girl child is the need of the hour and towards this larger cause Department of Biotechnology, St. Mary’s College is organizing a talk on ‘A girl is a flower, not a thorn’ by Adv. KavithaSubash, Lawyer, Supreme court of India on 24th January, 2019.