Nomads with a USG machine

Its match day and I'm super excited. As a morning ritual, I was going through the Times of India to see the pre-match review (like it matters) when I came across this.

India has 914 girl children per 1000 boy children. Every year we have 86 girls missing from India's hospitals and wombs per 1000 males. This is crazy! More than crazy, its scary.

No one seems to do anything about it. Just a few days back, 3-4 doctors from Haryana were in jail for sex selection. Thats too little! It happens in every corner of the country.

Its high time we seriously do something about it. We are awaiting results from the Silent observers practicing districts. You can have hundreds of laws like PNDT, its not going to matter if this continues.

What are we? Is it really the world's fastest growing developing economy if we cant take care of our little girls? Are we nomads with a USG machine?

Indian census: New Indian birth control

So the census numbers are out. The census has a few positives and persisting negatives.

While the population growth rate has steadily declined, which is an amazing sign, the sex ratio continues to be a constant worry. Sex ratio below 6 years shows out of every 100, there are 52.24 male children.

A Times of India article a few days back said there would be 20% more males than females by 2030. A Government spokesperson confirmed the estimate, and said, "Our Government is doing absolutely NOTHING about this, as we are seeing the bigger picture that the world is not. Falling sex ratio is India's way of birth control. We can't do a China after the Rajiv Gandhi incident, so this is the next best alternative."

While the Government is doing little for the falling sex ratio, there are a few brave programs that address preconceptional / gestational diagnostics (Ultrasonography and the likes)

You can Read about Silent observers in practice at Kolhapur and Sangli.

And here's a link to the census data.