Population stabilisation fortnight will be observed in the state from World Population Day on July 11 to July 24. Efforts will be undertaken to ensure participation of society and people's representatives in the activities to be conducted during this period.
Is India sliding into a social catastrophe with the number of younger women set to decline in the coming years because of dipping child sex ratio? Or is there any hope of retrieving the situation?
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir are emerging as the new hotspots of declining sex ratio in India, according to a recent study published in reputed journal The Lancet.
According to the study, about 95 per cent of districts in Maharashtra and Rajasthan have witnessed further decline in sex ratio, slipping towards the range of traditional hotspots.
Selective abortion of girls in India prevented well over 4.2 million to 12.1 million girls from being born between 1980 and 2010, with the largest number of girls being aborted in the 1990s, a new survey has revealed.
Selective abortion of girls, especially for pregnancies after a firstborn girl, has increased substantially in India.
The first scientific study on decadal rate of selective abortions of girls in India has thrown up shocking evidence of a staggering rise in the number of missing girls right from 1980s, and of how the wealthiest and the most educated have conspired to eliminate the girl child.
The first decade of the 21st century saw more selective abortions in India than the two previous decades put together, says a new study by a prominent international health research organisation.
The Toronto, Canada-based Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), has estimated that 4.5 million girls went missing in India during 2001-2010 as against a total 3.6 million during 1980-2000.
Stumped by the declining child sex ratio in the city, the state government and the BMC have decided to strengthen the implementation of the Preconception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, in the state.
While the BMC has decided to increase the frequency of its meetings with obstetricians and gynaecologists in the city, the state government has decided
