Jhajjar, Haryana: “There are families who keep trying to get a boy child, they have three, four, five daughters but they keep trying in the hope of a son,” said Sunita Devi, the pradhaan (head) of Dhandlan village in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. “A boy child continues to be important simply because he is perceived to be an asset, not a burden.”
Haryana has historically had one of the lowest sex ratios in the country–it had 833 girls for 1,000 boys at birth in 2011, according to the government’s Civil Registration System (CRS) data.
However, for close to a decade now, the state has shown a steady improvement in its sex ratio at birth, and reported 920 girls for 1,000 boys in August 2019, as per state-level CRS data shared with IndiaSpend.
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