NHRC expresses concern over declining sex ratio at birth
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that has raised serious issue of abysmal sex ratio across the country specifically in the southern states. As per news report, the data collated by the Office of the Registrar General of India from the Civil Registration System reveals that in the year 2016, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan states had the worst sex ratio at birth of 806.