SEX RATIO:-- DECLINE FEMALE POPULATION IN KASHMIRVALLY

                                        DECLINE FEMALE
       POPULATION IN KASHMIRVALLY

  Blaming the latest technology an scrupalous doctors for the declining sex ratio. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday,6th June 2011 said that" the situation in Kashmir is very alrming" Kashmir vally which had seen the sharpest decline in the female population. He said" unfortunately,the story of Kashmir has been the worst.
                         The sex ratio in Jammu & Kashmir
                         959  women per  1000 males in 1971
                         892  women per  1000 males in 2001
                         883  women per  1000 males in 2011
                                    Child ratio
                         941 per 1000 in 2001
                                                                        859 per 1000 in 2011
  Mr Azad said the government expected an improvement with increased levels of education but, unfortunately, cheap and portable technology of sex detection had worsened the  scenario. Linking sex determination and selective abortions to the reluctance of doctors to serve in the rural areas, the Minister said the doctors earned enough by indulging in these illegal practice at the district level and hence did not want to go to remote areas.
                                                                                Prof. John Kurakar