BHUBANESWAR: Orissa's sex ratio of 972 females per 1,000 males looks comfortable. But, if the sex ratio of the child population in the age group 06 years is taken into account, it shrinks to only 953 girl child per 1,000 boys. Here lies the nagging problem. The problem of sex determination and female foeticide. The skewed sex ratio, well known as Punjab Haryana Delhi syndrome, is manifesting in many pockets and districts of Orissa in a pronounced way. A booklet and a compact disc on `Child Sex Ratio: India and Orissa,' released here on Sunday by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on World Population Day sheds, more light on the dark facts. A whopping 36 per cent of its districts have the child sex ratio below 945. These districts are not the interior tribal hinterlands rather the well developed the highly literate coastal and industrial districts of Orissa. While Nayagarh infamous for largescale female foeticde has the lowest child sex ratio of 904, Nabarangpur has the highest ratio of 999. The ratio is 930 in Keonjhar town. It slips to 892 at Badachana in Jajpur. In Damanjodi, the ratio is 918 and in Rourkela it is only 933. But, Orissa's Delhi is Sarankul in Nayagarh district. The ratio there is 866 against 868 in Delhi. Bhubaneswar has a low ratio of 913 a significant 3 less than Uttar Pradesh's average of 916 per 1,000 boys. Cuttack's 939 is around the average of Madhya Pradesh a State known for poor sex ratio. Hinjili the constituency of the Chief Minister with a ratio of 923, is lagging behind the State average. In fact, a high of 9 in the subdistrict (police station) level in Ganjam have lower ratio than the State average. Similarly, nine police station areas in Angul too had lower sex ratio than the State average. Comparably, two in police station level in Gajapati a poor and extremely backward tribal area have the ratio at over 1,000. The trend noticed here is not a homegrown one. Data show it as a national phenomenon. Compare Gujarat and Maharasthra with Chhattisgarh and Bihar the two extreme poles in the development horizon. The ratio of Gujarat and Maharastra stands at 883 and 913 against 942 and 935 for Bihar and Chhattisgarh respectively.