Gender ratio is high in Villages than Cities

New Delhi, March 04: As we know that, since from past five years, The Sex ratio at birth(SRB) for the country has 1000 boys for 950 girls only.

As per the latest national health survey, There is a marginal improvement from 914 to 919 girls per 1000 boys.It also shows that, Urban India fares worse than the rural parts of the country in terms of sex-ratio, both overall and at birth,

The overall sex-ratio for the country is 991, while in rural India it was 1009 and in urban areas 956, according to the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) for 2015-16.

In Haryana, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign, the overall child sex-ratio at birth in the past five years was 836, up from 762 in 2005-2006. But in urban Haryana it is as low as 785.

The survey found that there are 876 women per 1000 men in Haryana, but in the state's urban areas the ratio of women is to men is 846:1000.

By looking at state data, only 9 states have sex ratio at birth (SRB) above the natural SRB (950). These include states like Kerala ( 1047), Meghalaya (1009), Chattisgarh (977) and so on. (Data of Uttar Pradesh is not released yet)

Punjab which had the lowest SRB (734) in the previous NHFS 2005-06, has shown a drastic improvement with an 18% increase to 860. Though still below the natural level (950), policy efforts aimed at reversing the trend of male preference in the state seemed to have worked. Even Haryana has shown a 10% increase in SRB from 762 in 2005-06 to 836 in 2015-16.