Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 3: Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry today expressed concern over dropping child sex ration in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the State Government to take necessary steps to reverse the trend.
Union Health Secretary K D Raju while addressing the national summit on Best Practices and Innovations in Public Healthcare System said here, “the child sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir is alarming. This a matter of great concern.”
The child sex ratio in the State fell from 964 girls per 1000 boys in 2001 Census to just 862 girls per 1000 boys in 2011 Census. “I do not worry so much about the fact that Punjab and Haryana have dismal figures but I do worry about the fact that Jammu and Kashmir has such figures,” the Minister said.
Raju said the reprehensible practice of female feticide is not the one that is endorsed here.”This is a matter of most urgent importance. Steps are needed to be taken to reverse this trend and agencies, which can help in this regard, need to be roped in,” he added.
Raju sought personal intervention of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in dealing with the problem. “I do believe it can be reversed. It is at the heart of the healthcare,” he added.
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