Monday, October 22, 2012

Children in India 2012 - A Statistical Appraisal Report released

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released on 9 October 2012 a report named Children in India 2012 - A Statistical Appraisal, showcased the griming status of children in India. The report in its finding pointed out a growth of population by 181 million people, between 1991 to 2011 and at the same time also a huge reduction of 5.05 million of child in the age group of 0 to 6 years. And among this the decline in female population reportedly was 2.99 million and of male population was 2.06 million.

The report indicates a huge dip in the sex ratios of child, increased crime and troubles against the girl child and continued child labour that is constitutionally believed to be a social crime.

As per the report there was a 24 percent increase in reported crime against children in the year 2011. In this list of crime against children Uttar Pradesh took the first position with 16.6 percent share followed by states like Madhya Pradesh and Delhi. 47 percent kidnapping cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, where as 44.5 percent of child rape cases were reported in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

The report also presented a dip of child sex ratio from 945 to 914 in a period of two decades in between 1991 to 2011, when the graph of over-all sex ratio showcasing improvement climbed from 927 to 940. In this report the identified states with lowest sex ratio were Haryana (830), Punjab (846), Jammu and Kashmir (859), Delhi (866) and Chandigarh (867) in a chronological order. North-eastern states, like Meghalaya and Mizoram remained at top position with maximum (970).

This report is prepared by making the comparisons on different standards like rural vs urban, north vs south and northeast vs rest of India. The findings of the report presents a shocking data of no Northern state except Himachal Pradesh had its presence in the sex-ration chart above 900. It also presents an indicator of the birth-ration of a girl child as compared to that of the male births per 1000 to be 832 in Punjab and 848 in Haryana due to the impacts of female foeticide prevalent in the region.

Uttar Pradesh with 15.22 percent share in the chart of child labour stood at top position and is followed by Andhra Pradesh. Youthful crimes of children have also been raised as the issue of serious concern in the report, and Tamil Nadu with 672 cases per 1000, took the lead in the chart with its share of 23.7 percent as a whole.