NEW DELHI: Haryana’s embarrassingly skewed sex ratio at birth seems to be showing signs of improvement, with the administration claiming a jump of 38 points between 2015 and December 2017.
While the 2011 census put Haryana’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) at a poor 830 girls per 1,000 boys, in 2017, the SRB, as per chief registrar of births and deaths, stood at 914 girls per 1,000 boys.
The data was presented at a national consultation organised by the women and child development ministry on the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) programme here.
BBBP was launched in 2015 by PM
Narendra Modi from
Panipat in
Haryana. The data for Panipat shows SRB increased from 833:1000 in 2011 to 892:1000 in 2015. It went up further to 893:1000 in 2016 and 945:1000 in 2017.
According to data trend shared at the conference, SRB in Haryana rose from 876:1,000 in 2015 to 902:1,000 in 2016 and then went up further to 914:1000 in 2017.
District wise break-up reflect trends that have some extremes like it is claimed that Yamunanagar’s SRB has gone up by 75 points to 943:1,000 in 2017 from 2015 .
While Haryana administration attributes the highs to the many measures it claims to have taken under BBBP around awareness building and community participation, the decline in
Mewat is under scrutiny, officials said.