India’s goal of correcting its gender imbalance seems to have grown more distant. The National Family Health Survey has found that a number of states that had made progress in terms of the sex ratio at birth have now posted discouraging figures. Out of the 22 states surveyed thus far, eight have registered a significant decline in their sex ratios. These include Kerala, Meghalaya, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, all of which had posted gains in the last NFHS. Kerala had been the second best performer after Punjab in the NFHS-4, clocking a gain of 122 points by bolstering its sex ratio at birth from 925 in the third survey in 2005-2006 to 1,047 in the fourth in 2015-2016. Meghalaya, too, had progressed by 102 points in the last NFHS. The latest findings indicate a clear failure on the part of seemingly gender-forward states to maintain their momentum in correcting skewed sex ratios. With Kerala being India’s most literate state its literacy rate stands at 96.2 per cent it ca
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