Lucknow: This Nargis is no film star, but she has won instant fame with news photographers clicking her open smiling eyes, at a community health centre in Mala block on the outskirts of Lucknow (UP) on Monday, by being the world’s 7 billionth (7,000,000,000) baby, to be sponsored along with 6 other babies.

Her mother Vinita felt proud and happy, unlike her name (humble), when the held the baby for public show. Nargis and Vinita are residents of Dhanaur village, along with father Ajay Yadav, whose first child she (Nargis) is.

Ashok Misra, Chief Health Officer at Mala block, issued the birth certificate to the child’s father in a formal ceremony on Sunday (October 31).

Plan International has a presence in 50 countries and its India branch Plan India’s Press Officer Devider Kumar informed the press that it was a symbolic event to notify the survival rights of a girl child as the national milestone.

In India, where males dominate in most of the families, female feticide and girl child- killing have created public consternation, as it is adverse to what sage Manu and Vedas always said of all great women and female children.