In 5 Years, Haryana Registers Incredible Improvement In Sex Ratio With 923 Girls For 1000 Boys

For many years, Haryana had the dubious distinction of having the most skewed sex ratio in the country. But things have turned around for good. Haryana has set a new benchmark in the male-female sex ratio as the state has witnessed a remarkable increase of 52 points in sex ratio at birth during the last five years.?

As per the latest figures, the sex ratio of the state has increased from 871 girls for every 1,000 boys in 2014 to 923 girls in 2019. Interestingly, the increase is even higher than the target set by the Government of India under ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ guidelines.

Sharing more details in this regard, Nodal Officer ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ program Dr. Rakesh Gupta said it is a matter of great pride that under the able guidance of Chief Minister Manohar Lal?Khattar, the State had gone up by leaps and bounds viz-a-viz the sex ratio.?

He said that five years back in January 2015, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the BJP campaign from the historic city of Panipat, nobody could have ever imagined that as a state like Haryana which was struggling from decades over this the issue could ever witness such improvement. However constant and dedicated efforts done by the State Government have finally borne fruit and still more has to be done in this direction.According to the state government, a total of 5,18,725 births were registered during 2019, including 2,48,950 female births and 2, 69,775 male births.

The majority of Haryana districts, which had a low sex ratio of below 900 for decades are now placed better with a sex ratio of more than 920. Panchkula and Ambala have attained the distinction of 950-plus births — 963 and 959, respectively.Mahendragarh district of Haryana, which since decade was known to have the lowest sex ratio has also seen a massive improvement of 172 points to reach 917 in 2019, while, in 2014, the sex ratio of the district was even less than 800 (745). In 2019, more than 2,500 girls were saved in Mahendragarh district alone.?

He also said that during the last 5 years more than 730 FIRs were registered including 185 FIRs in neighbouring states of UP, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and around 2000 culprits arrested in this crackdown against female foeticide.Over 200 prosecution cases under PC-PNDT Act are undertrial in various courts against the offenders.