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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Big cities have worst sex ratios in country

Big cities have worst sex ratios in country

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published Published on Oct 20, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 20, 2011
-The Times of India
 
India's towns are worse than its villages when it comes to the child sex ratio (CSR), but its biggest cities are even worse. Against an overall ratio of 914 girls for 1,000 boys in the age group of 0-6 years, the urban ratio is 902 but the combined figure for cities with a population of a million or more is just 898.

Look through the data for the relevant states, however, and you see distinctly different trends. In several northern states, the all-India pattern is repeated - the CSR quite clearly going from bad to worse as you go from overall population to urban population to the million-plus cities. The states which fall in this category are with one exception from what were once pejoratively labeled the BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) belt.

The only exception is Gujarat, where the CSR for the million-plus cities, which include Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot, falls to 836, a good 50 points lower than the state's average. In Karnataka and West Bengal, while the same pattern held, the decline in the ratios in the big cities was much smaller.

The opposite of this trend is witnessed in states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, where the CSR actually is better in the biggest cities than in the state as a whole or in the urban areas. In the case of Kerala, there really isn't much of a difference between the three figures.

Interestingly, in Punjab and in Haryana too, the figure for million-plus cities is better than for urban areas as a whole or for the entire state. However, with just two such large cities in Punjab (Ludhiana and Amritsar) and one in Haryana (Faridabad), it is not clear how much can be read into this pattern.

Delhi and Chandigarh from among the million-plus cities were not included in this comparison since in their cases the three figures would obviously be the same.

Among the urban agglomerations, Surat had the worst CSR of 814 and Thiruvananthapuram the best with 971. Among the metros, Delhi with 868 was the worst followed by Greater Mumbai with 900. In comparison, Bangalore with 939, Hyderabad with 943, Kolkata with 946 and Chennai with 962 were significantly better.


The Times of India, 20 October, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Big-cities-have-worst-sex-ratios-in-country/articleshow/10422558.cms


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