Male -Female sex ratio has improved by 52 points at birth during the last five years in Haryana, the State Government said on Friday.

As per the latest figures, the sex ratio of the State has increased from 871 girls for every 1,000 boys, in 2014 to 923 girls in 2019. Interestingly, the increase is even higher than the target set by the Government of India under ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ (B3P) Guidelines.

Nodal Officer ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ program, Rakesh Gupta said the State had gone up by leaps and bounds viz-a-viz the sex ratio. He said a total 518,725 births were registered during 2019 which includes 248,950 female births and 269,775 male births. He said that the majority of the districts which had a low sex ratio of below 900 for decades are now placed better with the sex ratio of 920+.  "Two districts namely Panchkula and Ambala has attained the distinction of being 950+ (963,959 respectively), an ideal sex ratio at birth as per Public Health experts," Gupta said.

Gupta shared that Mahendragarh district of Haryana, which since decade was known to have the lowest sex ratio has also done wonders as the district gained a massive jump of 172 points to reach 917 in 2019, while, in 2014, the sex ratio of the district  was even less than 800 (745). He said that in 2019, more than 2500 girls were saved in Mahendragarh district alone

The official said that during the last 5 years more than 730 FIRs were registered including 185 FIRs in neighbouring States of UP, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttrakhand and around 2000 culprits arrested in this crackdown against female foeticide. More than 200 prosecution cases under PC-PNDT Act are under trial in various courts against the offenders.

Apart from this the State  Government also implemented ‘informer incentive scheme’ providing a reward of one lakh to the informer providing information about the sex determination in any part of State, which helped in exposing the gangs of criminals involved in this crime, Rakesh Gupta added.