Meena Sharma

Meena Sharma (c.1984 - ) is an Indian journalist who was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar 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 Zee News on the show "Nayika". On News 18 she hosted Desh Ki Baat and "Dr Meena Sharma Ke Sath". At the time she was a 26 year old freelance journalist working with Sahara Samay, the 24 hour Hindi news channel in Jaipur. The award was made by the President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Mukherjee and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi 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 Maharana Mewar Foundation.