Summary:
Jaisalmer recorded 732 birth registration of girl child at birth against 1,000 boys’ registration in 2016. The state figures, though, claimed Sikar was one of the better performing district with PCTS data for 2016 claiming that the SRB here was 952. While these districts were always infamous for the skewed sex ratios, the state has claimed situation is not as bad now here. In a recent meeting, directives were issued to implement strict measures to prevent sex determination test in the state. As part of the programme, we even conducted two decoy operations in Haryana,” said Dr Samit Sharma, special secretary (health), health department.The Centre’s CRS showed that the situation was horrific in Sikar, which had reported 649 girls per 1,000 boys, worst in the state..