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Shimona Kanwar, TNN | May 25, 2011, 06.56pm IST
Shimona Kanwar, TNN | May 25, 2011, 06.56pm IST
Chandigarh: If the second child is a girl, abortion is becoming a common practice especially amongst the literate section in the Indian households. Analyzing the results of the 2011 consensus, a recent Lancet published study, of which one of the coauthors is a PGI based Dr Rajesh Kumar, has revealed some of these startling facts about selective abortions in the country. Preference for boys, which is commonly known in parts of Punjab, Gujarat and Haryana, has also been found in 405 districts out of the 563 districts nationwide had shown decline in the child sex ratio (the number of females per thousand males in human population between age group 0-6 years).
The study was led by Professor Prabhat Jha, Centre for Global Health Research, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada, and Professor Rajesh Kumar, PGI School of Public Health, Chandigarh.
The 2011 Indian census revealed about 71 million fewer girls than boys aged 0-6 years, a notable increase in the gap of 60 million fewer girls recorded in the 2001 census and 42 million fewer girls recorded in the 1991 census. In this study, the authors analysed census data to determine absolute numbers of selective abortions and examined over 250,000 births from national surveys to estimate differences in the girl-boy ratio for second births in families in which the first-born child had been a girl.
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