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The State of Female Infanticide in Himachal Pradesh improvement from 896 in 2001 to 909 in 2011. Further, CSR in all districts of Himachal Pradesh with notable exception of Lahaul & Spiti district witnessed sharp decline from 1971 to 2011. For examples, CSR in Chamba district declined from impressive 1,019 in 1971 to 950 in 2011. In 2011, the district with lowest CSR was Una (870) followed by Kangra (873), Hamirpur (881), Bilaspur (893), Solan (899), Mandi (913), Shimla (922), Sirmaur (931), Chamba (950), Kinnaur (953) and Kullu (962). But the CSR has declined in all these districts since 1971. The only district to reverse the trend was Lahaul & Spiti which had more girls than boys under the age of 6 years (1,013 girls per 1,000 boys) The situation is worst in districts bordering Punjab and Haryana. All the top five districts with lowest child sex ratio i.e. Una (870), Kangra (873), Hamirpur (881), Bilaspur (893) and Solan (899) are bordering or near to Punjab which has the second lowest CSR (846) in India. Solan (899) and Sirmaur (931) also borders Haryana which with CSR of 834 is infamously No. 1 in skewed CSR in India. The situation is most alarming in some pockets of the districts bordering Punjab. In at least 24 panchayats of Una district, which borders Punjab, the CSR fell to below 500. Worst, in two gram panchayats of Una, the sex ratio was reportedly 111 and 167 respectively! The Himachal Pradesh government suspected that illegal abortion clinics in Nangal and Hoshiarpur (in Punjab) were providing an easy service to women from Himachal Pradesh to terminate their female foetuses. According to media reports, mobile vans fitted with ultrasound equipment clandestinely visit rural areas to conduct sex determination tests, and later the female foetuses are aborted. The Himachal Pradesh government complained of non-cooperation from Punjab government on protecting the girl child. 27 The CSR of Himachal Pradesh has declined sharply from 982 in 1971 to 969 in 1981, 951 in 1991, 896 in 2001 and 909 in 2011 as given below: Welfare), 11 February2014 27. Fighting female foeticide: Punjab not helping us, says Himachal govt, The Hindustan Times, 6 August 2015, http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/fighting-female-foeticide-punjab-not-helping-us-says-himachal-govt/ story-6Sk4WCUPjasJRsF61gLA1L.html 7
The State of Female Infanticide in Himachal Pradesh Table 2: CSR data for Himachal Pradesh and its districts: 1971-2011 28 Child Sex Ratio in Himachal Pradesh and its districts: 1971-2011 S. No. State/District CSR in age group 0-6 years (Number of females per 1,000 males) 1971 1981 991 2001 2011 (Provisional) Himachal Pradesh 982 969 951 896 909 1 Chamba 1019 984 965 955 950 2 Kangra 981 968 939 836 873 3 Lahul & Spiti 987 958 951 961 1,013 4 Kullu 966 965 966 960 962 5 Mandi 971 981 968 918 913 6 Hamirpur - 978 936 850 881 7 Una - 923 839 837 870 8 Bilaspur 966 965 966 882 893 9 Solan 996 951 951 900 899 10 Sirmaur 983 975 973 934 931 11 Shimla 970 982 968 929 922 12 Kinnaur 1006 990 968 979 953 2.2 Implementation of the PCPNDT Act India enacted the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (PNDT Act) to address sex selective abortion. The PNDT Act has since been amended to make it more comprehensive keeping in view the emerging technologies for selection of sex before and after conception and problems faced in the implementation of the Act and certain directions of Supreme Court. The amended Act came into force with effect from 14 February 2003 and it was renamed as “Preconception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994” (PCPNDT Act). The PCPNDT Act, as amended in 2003 provides for regulation and punishment. Section 3 of the PCPNDT Act provides for regulation of Genetic Counselling 28. Sources: The CSR data for Years 1971 to 1991 are taken from Piar Chand Ryhal and Shashi Punam, “A Study of Human Development Indicators and Decline Child Sex Ratio in Himachal Pradesh”, The Journal of Family Welfare, Vol. 55, No. 1, June 2009 available at http://medind.nic.in/jah/t09/i1/jaht09i1p70.pdf while the CSR data for 2001 and 2011 are taken from Provisional Population Totals Paper 1 of 2011 : Himachal Pradesh (See Sl No 12), Census 2011. The data for 2011 are provisional. http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/ prov_data_products_himachal.html 8
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