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KEY POINTS
· The latest data from the Sample Registration System shows that Indians are planning smaller families but also prefer fewer daughters.
· The upshot is that India’s total fertility rate (TFR) or the number of children expected to be born to a woman during her reproductive period has fallen from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2017, with both rural and urban India registering a steady fall.
· This is marginally more than the World Health Organization’s recommended replacement-level fertility of 2.1 children per woman; in urban India, in fact, the TFR is well below this average, indicating improving education levels and access to health among urban Indian women.
· As a result, projections for India’s population overtaking China have been postponed by five years to 2027.
· After steadily improving for two trienniums (three-year periods) between 2009-11 and 2011-13, the sex ratio has plummeted from its peak of 909 females per 1,000 males to 896 in the triennium ending 2017.
· As before, it is the relatively prosperous states that have recorded the worst fall: Telangana, Delhi, and Kerala join backward Bihar in the top rankings.
· Both the urban and state-wise data confirm the established trend that sex selection is being practised with greater frequency among affluent Indians who have the wherewithal to use technology (illegal, legal, or semi-legal) to ensure the delivery of a male child.
· All of this suggests the need to augment such creative missions as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, designed to alter behavioural models by incentivising the birth of the girl child. Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao was launched in 2015 in Panipat, Haryana, the region with the country’s worst sex ratio.
· But the scheme is targeted at poorer people, for whom a girl is traditionally seen as a cost and burden. It is unclear why richer, more educated Indians should harbour what the Economic Survey calls a “meta preference for boys”.
· Infant mortality rate and Maternal mortality has to be curtailed for better demographic balance.
· These biases have deep social and economic roots and there is an urgent need for messaging targeted at more sophisticated audiences so that India is able to regain some measure of demographic balance.
ASHUTOSH KUMAR 5 years
Kindly review
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about child sex ratio, sex ratio, it's impact on population. Keep writing.
Priya 5 years
kindly review
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Try to provide data for your arguments, underline key points. Keep writing.
Shivang Sharma 5 years
Review please. Thank you.
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about child sex ratio, total fertility rate, it's impact on population, some measures to regain demographic balance. Keep writing.
Krish 5 years
kindly review sir,Thank u
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about child sex ratio, imparting skills to youth, human capital formation etc. Keep writing
