SEX RATIO IN INDIA 2012-2013

                             SEX RATIO IN INDIA 2012-2013

The continuous decline in numbers of girls in the age group 0-6 years compared with boys in several states has shocked demographers in India and has made policy makers sit up and take notice. A new report, Missing, released by the United Nations Population Fund on 20 October, maps the adverse sex ratio among children.India's population stood at 1.03 billion on 1 March 2001, having risen 21% between 1991 and 2001. “What did not rise, but rather declined shockingly, was the sex ratio,” says the report.The sex ratio, calculated as number of girls per 1000 boys in the 0-6 age group, declined from 945 girls per 1000 …

		2011 Census			2001 Census
Sr. No.	State	Sex Ratio	Male	Female	Sex Ratio	Male	Female	Change
-	India	940	623,724,248	586,469,174	933	532,223,090	496,514,346	7
1	Kerala	1084	16,021,290	17,366,387	1058	15,468,614	16,372,760	26
2	Puducherry	1038	610,485	633,979	1001	486,961	487,384	37
3	Tamil Nadu	995	36,158,871	35,980,087	986	31,400,909	31,004,770	9
4	Andhra Pradesh	992	42,509,881	42,155,652	978	38,527,413	37,682,594	14
5	Chhattisgarh	991	12,827,915	12,712,281	990	10,474,218	10,359,585	1
6	Manipur	987	1,369,764	1,351,992	978	1,161,952	1,131,944	9
7	Meghalaya	986	1,492,668	1,471,339	975	1,176,087	1,142,735	11
8	Orissa	978	21,201,678	20,745,680	972	18,660,570	18,144,090	6
9	Mizoram	975	552,339	538,675	938	459,109	429,464	37
10	Himachal Pradesh	974	3,473,892	3,382,617	970	3,087,940	2,989,960	4
11	Goa	968	740,711	717,012	960	687,248	660,420	8
12	Karnataka	968	31,057,742	30,072,962	964	26,898,918	25,951,644	4
13	Uttarakhand	963	5,154,178	4,962,574	964	4,325,924	4,163,425	-1
14	Tripura	961	1,871,867	1,799,165	950	1,642,225	1,556,978	11
15	Assam	954	15,954,927	15,214,345	932	13,777,037	12,878,491	22
16	West Bengal	947	46,927,389	44,420,347	934	41,465,985	38,710,212	13
17	Jharkhand	947	16,931,688	16,034,550	941	13,885,037	13,060,792	6
18	Maharashtra	946	58,361,397	54,011,575	922	50,400,596	46,478,031	24
19	Lakshadweep	946	33,106	31,323	947	31,131	29,519	-1
20	Nagaland	931	1,025,707	954,895	909	1,047,141	942,895	22
21	Madhya Pradesh	930	37,612,920	34,984,645	920	31,443,652	28,904,371	10
22	Rajasthan	926	35,620,086	33,000,926	922	29,420,011	27,087,177	4
23	Arunachal Pradesh	920	720,232	662,379	901	579,941	518,027	19
24	Gujarat	918	31,482,282	28,901,346	921	26,385,577	24,285,440	-3
25	Bihar	916	54,185,347	49,619,290	921	43,243,795	39,754,714	-5
26	Uttar Pradesh	908	104,596,415	94,985,062	898	87,565,369	78,632,552	10
27	Punjab	893	14,634,819	13,069,417	874	12,985,045	11,373,954	19
28	Sikkim	889	321,661	286,027	875	288,484	252,367	14
29	Jammu and Kashmir	883	6,665,561	5,883,365	900	5,360,926	4,782,774	-17
30	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	878	202,330	177,614	846	192,972	163,180	32
31	Haryana	877	13,505,130	11,847,951	861	11,363,953	9,780,611	16
32	Delhi	866	8,976,410	7,776,825	821	7,607,234	6,243,273	45
33	Chandigarh	818	580,282	474,404	773	506,938	393,697	45
34	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	775	193,178	149,675	811	121,666	98,824	-36
35	Daman and Diu	618	150,100	92,811	709	92,512	65,692	-91

   

In the world's largest democracy a massive crisis of missing girls is unfolding, according to India's 2011 census. The latest census shows that the gap between the number of girls per 1,000 boys up to the age of six has widened to 914, a decrease from 927 a decade ago, at the 2001 census. In a country where a large part of the population finds it hard to get access to toilets and clean drinking water, access to illegal foetal sex-selection procedures seems easier.The girl child in India is falling prey to the profit-driven ultrasound industry and doctors who commit foeticide without compunction. The child sex ratio is emblematic of the status of women in the country.More than a dozen female foetuses were found dumped in a city in eastern Bihar state recently, days before the damning child sex ratio was revealed. Although there has been a fall in the rate of population growth(pdf), awareness of family size is accompanied by a greater preference for boys – a trend seen across class and rural-urban divides.Mumbai, India's commercial capital, boasts a ratio of 874 girls, one of the lowest in the country. Jhajjar district in the northern state of Haryana, could well be the capital of female foeticide, with a ratio of 774 girls to 1,000 boys – the state's ratio is 830, down from 861 recorded in the 2001 census. Regions that had more balanced sex ratios, such as the southern and eastern states, are now also registering this trend andresearch shows that even Indians overseas demonstrate similar sex ratios.Sabu M George, an activist with 25 years' experience in the field, said: "There are highly organised vested interests, a powerful lobby of doctors and companies selling ultrasound machines that cater to the sex-determination market." Doctors in India make at least $200m a year by conducting illegal sex-selection procedures, he said.During 1991, in the prosperous states of Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana, 5% of girls were eliminated. Ten years on, in 2001, this climbed to 10%-15%; and 7,000 fewer girls are born every day than ought to be, according to Unicef.Legislation was enacted in 1994 – the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (Prohibition of Sex Selection Act or PNDT) – but that failed to act as a deterrent to potential parents and doctors. A public interest case was filed in 2000 by George and two NGOs, MASUMand CEHAT, citing the government's failure to the implement the law. In 2001, seven years after legislation was enacted, the supreme court directed state governments to enforce it, making special reference to Punjab, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal. But in the past three years the relevant government committee has not met even once to take stock of the situation, George said.While an estimated 15 million girls were wiped out – simply not born – in India over the last decade, the figure is 25 million in China, where the state's one-child policy has become a one-son policy.Chinese ultrasound manufacturers also see India as their big market. Machines that were meant to be sold only to registered clinics are probably being sold to unauthorised entities. Activists have also criticised companies from the west, such as GE. The company points out that ultrasound is essential for many medical procedures, adding that, while buyers require valid certificates and must produce "affidavits stating that the equipment shall not be used for sex determination … GE's observation is that these laws are not routinely enforced."And it is not just the makers of medical devices who are taking advantage of the situation. Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, for example, have all contributed to the problem. The 1994 law prohibits advertising sex-selection services, often for genetic determination of sex, but those corporations carried online advertising, sponsored links, for sex-selection services. Another public interest case was filed to challenge the online ads.These are signs of the stunted evolution in the status of Indian women. Not surprisingly, India ranks a lowly 112 out of 134 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index for 2010 (pdf).The economic impact of women not contributing to society is clearly lost on many Indians, and the great Indian economic growth story has bypassed women's emancipation.Natural selection would have yielded an additional 600,000 girls every year. This translates into 10 million potential brides after two decades. The horror of how this could unfold is best captured by a chilling, if slightly exaggerated, film called Mathrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women

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