Towards improving the child sex ratio patterns

A district wise analysis of fmr6 (2001 census) (Mehendale, forthcoming) shows that Panjab. Hariyana, Delhi, western Himachal, northern Rajasthan, Gujrat, southern Maharashtra and central Tamilnadu are the worst districts.

state	dist	fmr_6	state	dist	fmr_6	state	dist	fmr_6
Punjab	Fatehgarh Sahib	754	H P	Una	839	Gujarat	Kheda	880
Haryana	Kurukshetra	770	Gujarat	Rajkot	844	Uttar Pradesh	Hathras	881
Punjab	Patiala	770	Delhi *	South West	845	Delhi *	New Delhi	882
Punjab	Kapurthala	775	Chandigarh *	Chandigarh	845	Rajasthan	Sikar	882
Punjab	Gurdaspur	775	Uttar Pradesh	Baghpat	847	Uttar Pradesh	Mainpuri	883
Punjab	Mansa	779	Uttar Pradesh	Agra	849	Maharashtra	Satara	884
Punjab	Bathinda	779	M P	Gwalior	849	H P	Bilaspur	884
Punjab	Amritsar	783	Maharashtra	Sangli	850	Maharashtra	Aurangabad	884
Haryana	Sonipat	783	Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad	851	Bihar	Darbhanga	885
Haryana	Ambala	784	J & K	Kathua	851	Uttar Pradesh	Jalaun	885
Punjab	Sangrur	784	Uttaranchal	Hardwar	852	Gujarat	Bhavnagar	886
Haryana	Kaithal	789	Rajasthan	Ganganagar	852	Uttar Pradesh	Jhansi	886
Punjab	Rupnagar	791	Delhi *	North West	854	Uttar Pradesh	Aligarh	886
Haryana	Rohtak	796	Uttar Pradesh	Meerut	854	Delhi *	South	886
Punjab	Jalandhar	797	Uttar Pradesh	Gautam B Nagar	855	Uttar Pradesh	Budaun	887
Gujarat	Mahesana	798	Haryana	Faridabad	856	Gujarat	Surendranagar	888
Haryana	Yamuna nagar	800	Uttar Pradesh	Muzaffarnagar	857	Rajasthan	Alwar	888
Haryana	Jhajjar	805	Delhi *	West	858	Maharashtra	Ahmadnagar	890
Punjab	Faridkot	805	Rajasthan	Dhaulpur	859	Uttar Pradesh	Etah	891
Punjab	Muktsar	807	Maharashtra	Kolhapur	859	Tamil Nadu	Theni	893
Haryana	Panipat	807	Gujarat	Patan	862	Gujarat	Jamnagar	894
Haryana	Karnal	808	Haryana	Gurgaon	863	Gujarat	Amreli	894
Punjab	Nawanshahr	810	H P	Hamirpur	864	Uttar Pradesh	Saharanpur	894
Punjab	Hoshiarpur	810	Uttar Pradesh	Kanpur Nagar	865	Uttar Pradesh	Etawah	895
Gujarat	Ahmadabad	814	Uttar Pradesh	Shahjahanpur	866	Tamil Nadu	Namakkal	896
Haryana	Mahendragarh	814	Rajasthan	Jhunjhunun	867	Uttar Pradesh	Mahoba	896
Haryana	Rewari	814	Maharashtra	Jalgaon	867	Bihar	Sitamarhi	896
Punjab	Ludhiana	815	Rajasthan	Jaisalmer	867	Rajasthan	Jaipur	897
J & K	Jammu	816	Delhi *	North East	867	Uttar Pradesh	Mau	897
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	816	Uttar Pradesh	Bulandshahar	868	Gujarat	Porbandar	897
Haryana	Jind	818	Delhi *	East	868	Maharashtra	Solapur	897
Haryana	Sirsa	818	Delhi *	North	870	Maharashtra	Bid	898
Punjab	Moga	819	Gujarat	Surat	872	Uttar Pradesh	Auraiya	898
Punjab	Firozpur	819	Uttar Pradesh	Mathura	872	Maharashtra	Mumbai	898
Tamil Nadu	Salem	826	Rajasthan	Hanumangarh	873	Gujarat	Junagadh	898
M P	Bhind	829	Gujarat	Anand	874	Uttar Pradesh	Kanpur Dehat	899
M P	Morena	829	M P	Datia	875	Uttar Pradesh	Bareilly	899
Haryana	Hisar	830	Rajasthan	Bharatpur	875	H P	Solan	900
Haryana	Fatehabad	830	Gujarat	Vadodara	875	Uttar Pradesh	S Ravidas Nagar	900
H P	Kangra	836	Rajasthan	Karauli	876	Bihar	Saharsa	900
Haryana	Panchkula	837	Tamil Nadu	Dharmapuri	878	Rajasthan	Dausa	900
Haryana	Bhiwani	838	Gujarat	Sabar Kantha	878	Rajasthan	Sawai Madhopur	900

Following kind of monitoring can be suggested:

1) The dept. of family welfare should insist that Apropriate authorities are appointed immediately at least for these districts and the respective states.

2) The dept. can call for monthly reports of registration of new clinics, (both sonography and gynaecology clinics) from the appropriate authorities.

3) the fmr1 ie sex ratio for children below the age of 1 year should be immediately collected for these 126 districts,

4) census of child population for children below 1 year and children below 6 years should be carried out every year rather than after 10 years.

5) The anganwadi workers of these 126 districts can be asked to do child birth egistration more vigorously and may be given some extra incentive for a more effective birth registration.Such incentive need not be necessarily by giving money but can also be by increasing their visibility and decision making authority. For example two incentives tried out in orissa by Agnihotri were

I) To give them additional contingency grant of Rs. 1000/-

II) To create a few promotional avenues for them in the supervisory cadre.

A whole range of moral-boosting incentives is available both in terms

of monetary and non-monetary benefits.

6) At present, a sex-wise disaggregated data is kept only at the level of anganwadi workers but the data entry at the district or state level deliberately excludes

the column for gender as a policy of the women development dept.(quoting from commissioner for women Welfare, Maharashtra, I am requesting the Commissioner to confirm this in writing, the dept. can also do so.)

The dept of family welfare must immediately take it up with the D/WCD so that gender-wise data becomes available with a much regular periodicity.