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'India should have 35 million more women' Eliminating girl child means, the burdon lies on Older Generation. By Gargi Parsai New Delhi Oct. 21. With a deficit of 35 million women reported in the 2001 census compared to the three million in 1901, India cannot afford to wait till the next census in 2011 to determine whether the growing practice of female foeticide had waned and the girl-child mortality rate had gone up. On an average, there should have been 35 million more women in the country had the standard sex ratio of 945 women to 1,000 men been maintained over the years. To strengthen the monitoring of female foeticide and girl-child survival, the Registrar-General of India (RGI), J.K. Banthia, has asked all the Chief Registrars of Births and Deaths to closely monitor the sex ratio at birth every month. As an example, 10-crore birth certificates would be issued across the country on November 14, Children's Day. The sex ratio in the age group of 0 to 6 has decreased at a much faster pace than the overall sex ratio of the country after 1981. From 945 in 1991, the child sex ratio has declined to 927 in 2001. Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1,000 males in the population. It is an indicator of the decline in the number of girls as compared to boys. The child sex ratio is an indicator of the status of the girl-child in the society. According to Mr. Banthia, who has formulated a brochure `Missing' on Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India: 'The imbalance that has set in at an early age group is difficult to be removed and would remain to haunt the population for a long time to come'. Analysis of the census data shows that those parts of the country where technology for sex selection is slow in reaching have a much better child sex ratio than the areas which are affluent and technologically advanced. The top 10 districts with healthy child sex ratios are South in Sikkim (1,036 girls to 1,000 boys), Upper Siang in Arunachal Pradesh (1,018), Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir (1,017), Bastarand Dantewada in Chhattisgarh (1,014), East Kameng in Arunachal Pradesh (1,011), Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir (1,010), Senapati in Manipur (1,007), Mokukchung in Nagaland (1,004) and Badgam in Jammu and Kashmir (1,003). On the lowest rung of the child sex ratio are the Fatehagarh Sahib (754), Patiala (770), Gurdaspur (775), Kapurthala (775), Bhatinda (779), Mansa (779) and Amritsar (783) districts in Punjab. The other districts reporting low ratios are Kurukshetra (770), Sonipat (783) and Ambala (784) in Haryana. Ahmedabad reports a ratio of 814 and South-West Delhi of 845. While the national average has improved to 927 in the latest survey, the State average of child sex ratio is 878 in Gujarat, 865 in Delhi, 909 in Rajasthan, 917 in Maharashtra, 939 in Tamil Nadu and 897 in Himachal Pradesh. Courtesy: The Hindu, 22nd October 2003.

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