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Sex ratio improves in haryana

haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati said on Tuesday that the State Government is committed to safeguarding the interests of the girl child and providing equal opportunities to enable them to realise their full potential in life. Presiding over a meeting of Secretaries here, she asserted that even though the sex ratio figures of Census 2011 for haryana which show an increase over the previous years appeared to be a ray of...

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Delhi's population grows slowest in 100 yrs by Rukmini Shrinivasan

Adding just 30 lakh people in the last 10 years, Delhi experienced its slowest population growth in almost a century. The decadal growth rate of 21% was less than half the figure of 47% for the previous decade. Census officials attributed this to a combination of declining fertility and mass slum demolitions. Provisional district-level data released by Varsha Joshi, director of census operations for NCT, on Monday said this is the...

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An idea of India

India’s population of 1.2 billion, according to the 2011 decennial census, is growing at the century’s slowest rate of 17.6 per cent — four percentage points lower than in the previous decade. India is approaching, but has not yet reached, the replacement level. This means India’s population will stabilise somewhere between 1.5 billion and 1.6 billion by 2030, making it the world’s most populous country. It is hard to discern...

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Prosperity doesn’t bring good fortune for girl child

With the provisional figures for the 2011 Census sounding an alarm over the falling child sex ratio, it's a good time to look at who really is responsible for this. Who's committing female feticide and infanticide? Available figures show that it's not the poorest and least literate people and communities who are responsible; to the contrary, the reverse is true. The 2011 numbers show that the states with the worst child...

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Govt calls emergency meet to discuss anti-feticide law by Kounteya Sinha

The Union health ministry registered only 107 cases of female feticide under Section 315 and 316 of IPC in 2010. This is an abysmally low figure in a country which scientists believe has seen over 10 million female lives lost to abortion and sex selection in the past two decades. A few years ago, an Indo-Canadian scientist had reported in the Lancet that pre-natal selection and selective abortion was causing a...

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