BBC News - Is India's population policy sexist?: "The good news is that India's birth rate has dropped by more than half in 35 years - from 5.7 children per woman in the mid-1960s to 2.7 in 2010. Nearly a third of India's people have lowered their fertility to replacement levels.
The bad news is that India is still set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2030. A Planning Commission report points to a 'chilling' fact: the wide geographical disparity in the projected population growth. The four northern states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh will alone account for 44% of the expected addition of 370 million people to India's population between 2001-26, the report says."
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Not the population policy of India is sexist but the attitude and mind seems so against the girl child. Gender determination was an urban middle class practice to balance the family ratio of a baby girl and a baby boy but gone detrimental against female foeticide. The provisional data of the latest census shows that the pre-natal sex determination has made a deep inroad inside rural India and during the last decade , rural India’s CSR fell by 15 points as opposed to urban India’s four-point decline.
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