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.
