Low Sex Ratio

The national capital continues to languish among the worst in terms of sex ratio in the country with 896 females to 1,000 males as per the Delhi government's annual birth and death registration report, a negligible improvement from last year's 895.

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".

If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to 'drop' a female infant if she is unwanted - instead of snuffing out her life.The infant would be immediately picked up by a local policeman, a v...

Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway.  Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...

The national capital continues to languish among the worst in terms of sex ratio in the country with 896 females to 1,000 males as per the Delhi government's annual birth and death registration report, a negligible improvement from last year's 895.

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".

If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to 'drop' a female infant if she is unwanted - instead of snuffing out her life.The infant would be immediately picked up by a local policeman, a v...

Newspaper advertisements, TV messages, raids on ultrasound clinics, door-to-door campaigns are underway.  Shamed by the dismal sex ratio revealed by the latest census report, the Jammu and Kashmir government is trying every trick in the book to save the girl child in the state.The census report, released in March, reveals there are only 859 fe...