Girl Child Ratio

The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised PM Modi's schemes appealing to people to adopt daughters as a symbol of pride, after taking charge as head of the country, which resulted in a "mass campaign" and "revolutionized the sex ratio".

At a time when the centre has been promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" programme, sex ratio at birth data from 132 villages in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand revealed that no girl child was born in these areas in the last three months.

Despite multiple campaigns over the years, the preference for sons is still strong among Indian parents, the Economic Survey tabled in parliament today says. "The Indian parents often continue to have children till they have the desired number of sons," says the Economic Survey 2017-18 drafted by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and his te...

National Girl Child Day is observed every year on January 24 to celebrate the accomplishments of the girl children and bring to focus the issues of skewed sex ratio, female foeticide, child marriage, unequal treatment and gender disparities in India.

A four-year-old girl in Haryana's Sirsa district was tortured and her private parts burned earlier this month. The inured child did not get any medical help for at least ten days until the local child welfare authorities found out about the incident and took her to hospital.

Chandigarh: Haryana, infamous for having skewed sex ratio, has a good news to share. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that the state has achieved a sex ratio of 900 girls against 1000 boys in 2016. The Chief Minister, citing Civil Registration System (CRS) data, said that the ratio was much in contrast to the statistics of 2011 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the steps taken by Haryana towards improving the adverse sex ratio and called upon the people of the state to take a pledge in its golden jubilee year to protect the girl child.

The IMA recently issued a circular wherein it announced several initiatives and urged its members across 1,700 branches to take part.

The Supreme Court today asked all states and union territories to submit by the month-end their quarterly reports with the Centre on issues including registration of birth, to ascertain the girl child ratio in the country.

In a unique initiative to save girl child in Haryana, where the sex ratio has been dismally low, a village panchayat in Jind has started a contest for clicking "selfie with daughter".

The Supreme Court today ordered Yahoo!, Google and Micrsoft's Bing to stop displaying ads for sex determination tests as India tries to battle its dwindling number of girls.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the "Beti Bachao Andolan" in Haryana on Thursday to save the girl child and improve the country's horrific child sex ratio, it meant a short road trip for his cabinet members and their big boss who couldn't use a helicopter because of bad weather.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today saluted the unparalleled accomplishments of the girl child on National Girl Child Day.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Haryana to launch the nationwide camnpaign called 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' (Save the Girl Child, Educate Her). The scheme will focus on fighting female foeticide and empowering women through education. Haryana has the worst sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) and child sex ratio in the country. Out of ...

The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised PM Modi's schemes appealing to people to adopt daughters as a symbol of pride, after taking charge as head of the country, which resulted in a "mass campaign" and "revolutionized the sex ratio".

At a time when the centre has been promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" programme, sex ratio at birth data from 132 villages in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand revealed that no girl child was born in these areas in the last three months.

Despite multiple campaigns over the years, the preference for sons is still strong among Indian parents, the Economic Survey tabled in parliament today says. "The Indian parents often continue to have children till they have the desired number of sons," says the Economic Survey 2017-18 drafted by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and his te...

National Girl Child Day is observed every year on January 24 to celebrate the accomplishments of the girl children and bring to focus the issues of skewed sex ratio, female foeticide, child marriage, unequal treatment and gender disparities in India.

A four-year-old girl in Haryana's Sirsa district was tortured and her private parts burned earlier this month. The inured child did not get any medical help for at least ten days until the local child welfare authorities found out about the incident and took her to hospital.

Chandigarh: Haryana, infamous for having skewed sex ratio, has a good news to share. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that the state has achieved a sex ratio of 900 girls against 1000 boys in 2016. The Chief Minister, citing Civil Registration System (CRS) data, said that the ratio was much in contrast to the statistics of 2011 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the steps taken by Haryana towards improving the adverse sex ratio and called upon the people of the state to take a pledge in its golden jubilee year to protect the girl child.

The IMA recently issued a circular wherein it announced several initiatives and urged its members across 1,700 branches to take part.

The Supreme Court today asked all states and union territories to submit by the month-end their quarterly reports with the Centre on issues including registration of birth, to ascertain the girl child ratio in the country.

In a unique initiative to save girl child in Haryana, where the sex ratio has been dismally low, a village panchayat in Jind has started a contest for clicking "selfie with daughter".

The Supreme Court today ordered Yahoo!, Google and Micrsoft's Bing to stop displaying ads for sex determination tests as India tries to battle its dwindling number of girls.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the "Beti Bachao Andolan" in Haryana on Thursday to save the girl child and improve the country's horrific child sex ratio, it meant a short road trip for his cabinet members and their big boss who couldn't use a helicopter because of bad weather.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today saluted the unparalleled accomplishments of the girl child on National Girl Child Day.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose Haryana to launch the nationwide camnpaign called 'Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao' (Save the Girl Child, Educate Her). The scheme will focus on fighting female foeticide and empowering women through education. Haryana has the worst sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) and child sex ratio in the country. Out of ...