Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SM)

Mangalore, Oct 25: The census on Sex Ratio (SR) in 0-6 age group showed a steep decline, informed Helen Premakumari, directorate of Census Operations Karnataka (DCOK) assistant director on Wednesday October 24.

She was speaking after inaugurating the one-day workshop on ‘Sex Ratio: Bare Truth’ organized on census data dissemination and its impact on development’ at Old Senate Hall of the University.

The workshop was jointly organized by the Gandhian Studies Centre of the Mangalore University and the DCOK.

Speaking on the occasion, she said that foeticide and infanticide were the major causes for the decline of child sex ratio. In the state the child SR had declined from 960 to 946, she added.

She further said that in 1991 census, the child SR in the district was 962, whereas in the year 2001 it had decreased to 952. But the general sex ratio in the district had increased to 1,022 in 2001. In the year 1991 it was 1015, she added.

In Mangalore City Corporation limits, the child SR has increased to 960 from 947, whereas the general SR decreased to 992 from 1,012, she informed.

She opined that awareness on effects of foeticide and infanticide should be created among the people.

She further said that the other districts which have favourable female and child sex ratios were Udupi and Hassan.