Declining sex ratio a cause of serious concern: CSWB
PTI | 10:02 PM,Feb 16,2012Shimla, Feb 16(PTI) Concerted efforts should be made to arrest the declining female sex ratio, which reached abysmally low level in 2011, Prema Cariappa, Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board today said. Talking to mediapersons, she said that sex ratio was quite good in some districts of Himachal like Lahaul and Spiti (1017) but situation was no better in Solan, Una, Sirmaur, Shimla and Kangra districts bordering Punjab and Haryana, notorious for female foeticide. Criappa, a former Mayor of Bangalore, said she was travelling through the length and breadth of the country to create awakening against female foeticide and "Save the girl child" said that unfortunately, the menace of female foeticide was not among the poor and illiterate but the elite urban population was indulging more in it. The solution lies in launching a strong campaign in favour of girl child by brining about change in old and perverted mindset of the society which still considers the girl child a liability, she asserted. A dominant section of citizens in Haryana were particularly defiant on the issue and if the media and NGOs failed to change the mindset of the people, there would be acute shortage of girls in the state for marriage, creating serious social problems, she said. She also spoke about a recently introduced programme of the council on rehabitation of the sexually and physically abused women in the country, who were being imparted vocational training to start their own ventures. There was also a scheme for sex a worker, who desired to return to the mainstream life, she added.
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