Giving Health authorities a reason to cheer, Rohtak has witnessed a two-fold rise in the number of villages having sex ratio at birth (girls per 1,000 boys) of more than 1,000.
As many as 23 villages of Rohtak district, which had in the past gained notoriety for skewed gender ratio, had registered a sex ratio at birth (SRB) of more than 1,000 in 2020. The count of such villages rose to 50 in 2021, according to data prepared by the ANM (auxiliary Nursing midwifery) association.
Significantly, five villages recorded the SRB of more than 1,400, including Sisroli (1,428), Basantpur (1,545), Garhi Majra (1,833), Singhpur Khas (1,875) and Patwapur (1,923).
It was last year that Rohtak district had topped the SRB tally across the state with the SRB of 945 girls even as Haryanas Average stood at 914. In 2020, Rohtak was ranked 16th with the SRB of 912. Earlier, Rohtak hadrecorded the SRB of 911 in 2019, 895 in 2018, 891 in 2017, 905 in 2016 and 859 in 2015.