New Delhi, India, Jul 25, 2019 / 07:00 am
A northern Indian district has launched an investigation into a region in which the birth rate of baby girls is in dramatic decline. Government data has revealed that among 216 babies born across 132 villages in the last three months, not even one of them was a girl.
The district administration of the Uttarkashi region has announced that it will form a task force to examine the reason why no girls have been born in the region.
But some experts in the area say the reason is clear. "No girl child was born for three months in these villages. It cannot be just a coincidence. This clearly indicates female foeticide is taking place in the district. The government and the administration are not doing anything," social work Kalpana Thakur told NDTV this week.
The region's district magistrate, Ashish Chauhan, told reporters this week that the matter is "suspicious, and has highlighted female foeticide."