Friday 7 September 2012

Health Ministry Worried Over Worsening of Gender Imbalance in the Country

With the sex ratio in the country worsening at an alarming rate, the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad called on a meeting of the Consultative Committee of Parliament to discuss the steps that could be taken to correct the problem. In his opening remarks, Azad said that between 1981 and 1991, the child sex ratio declined by 17 points from 962 to 945. Between 1991 and 2001, it further went down by 18 points. "As per 2011Census, ...

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