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AARTI DHAR / the hindu.
Blaming latest technology and unscrupulous doctors for the declining sex ratio, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday said the situation was ``very alarming’’, more so in the Kashmir Valley which had seen the sharpest decline in female population.
``Unfortunately, the story of Kashmir has been worst. It has shown almost 100 point decline in the past 40 years,’’ he told reporters during an interaction with the members of the Indian Women Press Corps. The sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir – Mr. Azad’s home State -- has come down from 959 per 1,000 males in 1971 to 892/1000 in 2001 and now 883 women per 1,000 males. Similarly, the child sex ration has fallen from 941 in 2001 to 859 in 2011 Census. ``The decline has been mostly in the Valley while the non-Muslim dominated areas around Jammu are better off,’’ he said while calling for a change in the mindset to fight the menace. As against the earlier three to four States showing skewed sex ratio, the problem has now spread to 22 States, he explained.
Mr. Azad said the government expected an improvement in the sex ratio due to increased levels of education but, unfortunately, cheap and portable technology of sex detection had further worsened the scenario. Linking sex determination and selective abortions to the reluctance of the doctors to serve in the rural areas, the Minister said the doctors earned enough by indulging into these illegal practices at the district level and hence did want to go to remote areas.
Our Society, at all levels and planes, is largely ruthlessly paternalistic but also shamelessly male-chauvinistic!
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