NEW DELHI: The ministry of women and child development issued a statement on Saturday to point that there has been an improvement of 16 points in sex ratio at birth (SRB) from 918 girls per 1000 boys in 2014-15 to 934 girls per 1000 boys in 2019-20.
Attributing the improvement to awareness and sensitisation efforts under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme, the government has further pointed out that out of 640 districts covered by the scheme, 422 show improvement in SRB.
The WCD ministry issued the statement to mark the National Girl Child Day scheduled to be observed across the country on Sunday. The BBBP Scheme was launched by the Centre on January 22 in 2015 at Panipat in Haryana with the objective of bringing behavioural change in the society towards birth and rights of a girl child.
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The stagnation of stunting rates is particularly alarming. Height, unlike weight, is not affected by short-term factors, so this is not a transient setback. Stunting in childhood is associated with serious impairments later in life, including lower school achievements.
Note that the NFHS-5 data pertains to the situation just before the COVID-19 crisis. One year later, chances are that child nutrition has deteriorated. Indeed, numerous household surveys point to severe food insecurity across India in 2020. In the latest survey, Hunger Watch, two-thirds of the respondents (adults from India’s poorest households) said that they were eating less nutritious food today than before the lockdown a chilling thought. It would be surprising if this did not have an adverse impact on child growth.