India, July 20 -- Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel recently expressed concern about the plight of children born out of wedlock and subsequently abandoned.

Speaking at the convocation ceremony of APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Patel said: "Kabhi kabhi ladke ladkiyan bhag jaate hain.koi pregnant hokar pakda jata hai.bachhe ko koi sweekaar nahin karta.uska maa, baap kaun? Sarkar? (Children often elope when their parents oppose relationships, girls get pregnant and their children are left for the government to take care as neither parents nor in-laws accept abandoned mothers and children)."

This issue is of prime concern and the governor must have based her statement on data accessible to her regarding 'abandoned kids, born out...