Child sex ratio down to 914: "Even as the country’s population growth rate decreased in the previous decade, the Census for 2011 paints a grim future for the women, with gender imbalance among children showing the worst fall since the Independence.
The sex ratio — the number of females per 1,000 males — among children up to six years fell by 13 points to 914, compared to 927 in the previous census 10 years ago. This is not all. The decline in the child sex ratio has been widespread with the eastern states and the Kashmir valley matching the northern states in the reduced number of girl children. The biggest drop has been in Jammu and Kashmir where the sex ratio came down by 82 points from 941 in 2001 to 859 in 2011."
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