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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's skewed sex ratio a stiff challenge for Beti Bachao scheme -Ajai Sreevatsan

India's skewed sex ratio a stiff challenge for Beti Bachao scheme -Ajai Sreevatsan

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published Published on Mar 9, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 9, 2018
-Livemint.com

Data shows India’s sex ratio worsening, no clear picture of improvement in districts under the Beti Bachao scheme

New Delhi:
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan to announce the nationwide expansion of the government’s flagship Beti Bachao scheme on Thursday, the choice held a lot of symbolic import.

Jhunjhunu, part of the initial 100 districts chosen for a targeted launch of the scheme in early 2015, has catapulted from being the district with the worst sex ratio indicators in Rajasthan to one of the best, government officials claim. The 2011 Census had pegged the district’s child sex ratio at 837 girls per 1,000 boys. By December 2017, the ratio among newborns had improved to 955 girls per 1,000 boys, according to government figures.

The catch is that these figures are based on the government’s birth registration system, which is often unreliable in a country where most births are not registered. Only the upcoming census in 2021 will give a more definitive measure of the improvements since 2015, if any. But in a country where the trend for the last 50 years has been a steady decline in the ratio of girl children (see chart 1), even a marginal improvement from the status quo is significant.

Apart from the census, the other major source for evaluating social perceptions about girl children is the Sample Registration Survey, which has also shown over the past few cycles that India’s sex ratio at birth is worsening. Rajasthan’s fell from an already low 893 girls per 1,000 boys in 2012-14 to 861 in 2013-15 (see chart 2).

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