Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Chandigarh Districts in Haryana with a higher literacy rate have recorded low child sex ratio and vice versa. This inverse relationship between the literacy rate and child sex ratio has come to the fore in the latest Census figures. The literacy rate of Haryana has increased to 76.64% in 2011 …
India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of stillbirths in the world. This finding comes after the country recorded the worst female child sex ratio ever (Census 2011). India figures at the top of 10 countries that have the highest number of stillbirths, according to the Stillbirth …
The Punjab government on Monday claimed the state has been able to improve its sex ratio much ahead of neighbouring Haryana due to a series of gender-sensitive policies launched by the SAD-BJP government during the last four years. According to an official spokesman, the provisional figures of 2011 Census reflect …
While mass predilections in Bihar are still veering towards the male child, the Nitish Kumar government will be pleased with the provisional Census 2011 data for the State, which has indicated a 20 per cent jump in the State's female literacy rate. As per the report, literacy rates for women …
Gautam Budh Nagar has registered all round progress on different fronts during the past 10 years, stated the latest census report. Literacy has jumped from 56.83 per cent in 2001 to 82.2 per cent in 2011. In woman literacy, district tops the state while population in G B Nagar has …
Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act). Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family …
LUCKNOW: Exponential industrial growth and proximity to New Delhi appear to be two major reasons for Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad emerging as UP's two most sought-after districts. According to the provisional population totals of Uttar Pradesh released by the Directorate of Census Operations in UP on Tuesday, both the …
North 24-Parganas has emerged as the second most densely populated district in the country with a population of 1,00,82,852 followed by Thane in Maharashtra, according to the 2011 Census report. The statistical figures regarding population, literacy rates, sex ratio in West Bengal ~ released at Writers' Buildings today by the …
The story of national shame continues for the second decade in a row for Haryana. Provisional census figures for 2011 show that two districts of the state - Jhajjar and Mahendergarh - have the lowest child sex ratio in the country. In Haryana, there are 18.02 lakh boys between 0 …
New Delhi: The skewed sex ratio, as revealed in Census 2011, shows that campaigns by the government have not been very effective in curbing female foeticide. There has been a marginal increase in the female population from the last census; but Delhi
New Delhi: With the nuclear family becoming the norm in the capital and both men and women out to earn a living, many couples prefer a single child or at the most two. Census 2011 reveals that a major reason for the gradual stabilization of population growth in Delhi is …
New Delhi: With the child sex ratio dipping in Southwest district from an already poor figure of 846 females per 1000 males in 2001 to 836 females per 1000 males in Census 2011, the capital has a serious problem. The provisional data of Census 2011 shows a substantial fall in …
Kaithal/Karnal: Haryana is known to have a bias against the girl child and the provisional Census figures released last week confirmed the gloomy trend. None of the many initiatives undertaken during the past decade appears to have worked and Haryana, along with Punjab, figures at the bottom of the states …
JAIPUR: After making it to the hall of shame with one of the lowest child sex ratio in the country, the Census data for the district and sub-districts is likely to be disclosed on Monday. These figures while presenting a nuanced picture of the state will also help in identifying …
Dramatic reverses in Ariyalur and Cuddalore Female literacy has improved in State CHENNAI: While the overall child sex ratio has improved in Tamil Nadu, the dip in the boy-girl ratio in at least 14 districts, including Chennai, provides the demographic downside in the provisional population figures of the 2011 Census …
Child Sex Ratio Worse In Prosperous, More Educated States: Census 2011 With the provisional figures for the 2011 Census sounding an alarm over the falling child sex ratio, it
The child sex ratio has dropped to a new low, 914 girls per 1,000 boys from 927 in 2001, and activists in the area say this is because states have been dragging their feet on the implementation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act. Sabu George, who in 2000 …
