If the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) is anything to go by, then more Indians now want daughters. According to the survey, 79% women and 78% men want to have a daughter. The numbers show a big improvement from the 2005-2006 NFHS survey, in which 74% of women and 65% of men had said, […]

The Haryana government  has shown a noticeable scaling up in terms of its sex ratio. It has now touched 914 girls against 1,000 boys in 2017. Infamous for its skewed sex ratio, the state at birth (SRB) was at 900 in 2016 and 876 in 2015 Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced on Saturday (Jan 13): “Out of […]

Infamous for its skewed sex ratio, Haryana – in a first — has shown a noticeable scaling up in its sex ratio. In March this year, it touched 950 girls for every 1,000 boys as per a New Indian Express report. The state’s Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, announced the good news and also proudly mentioned that the number has […]

After a long time, the Haryana government has some incredible news to cheer for. The state – in a first — has shown a noticeable scaling up in terms of its sex ratio, which now has touched the 950 mark.

Haryana — for the first time in 10 years — has shown a noticeable upward trend with the number of girls crossing 900 mark for the year 2016.

A recent survey shows that over the past 10 years, the sex ratio has notably dropped down in nine out of 11 states of India, whereas, with the changing socio-economic scenario, female literacy rates has gradually caught up with male literacy rates and the gap of male-female literacy rates is steadily narrowing down in each of those […]