Haryana is slipping again and Beti Bachao has become just another govt programme. Targets, slogans, incentives are all lost in the great Indian bureaucratic complacency.
Chikkaballapura had one of the lowest child sex ratios at birth at 868 in 2022, data shows. Steepest fall seen in Bengaluru Urban where it dropped from 1,715 in 2019 to 949 in 2022.
According to report by think tank Pew Research Center, sex ratio at birth has improved most in Punjab & Haryana. There's also been a notable decline in 'son preference' across India.
Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana among states/UTs lauded for registering an improvement on sex ratio at birth, in letter from WCD, health ministries.
Across Haryana's Ahirwal belt that spans Rewari, Mahendragarh and Narnaul, villages are performing 'kuan pujan', a ritual earlier observed for boys, on the birth of girl children.
Jhunjhunu and Sikar had the worst child sex ratio of Rajasthan's 33 districts as per Census 2011. But policy intervention has significantly helped the cause since.
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh accounted for close to 70 per cent of the total avoidable deaths, study published in Lancet has found.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
Hats off to writer for such a wonderful truth. We need to escalate effort for prevention of Female foeticide.