Urgent need to check skewed sex ratio: Azad

New Delhi: 15th January 2013 

There was an urgent need to overcome the male-biased sex-ratio in the country through a combination of strategies, including new laws and advocacy, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Wednesday.  "There is an urgent need to overcome male-biased birth ratios through a combination of strategies, including attention to gender equality in laws and policies, advocacy, media campaigns and economic growth," Azad said at the 20th meeting of the central supervisory board (CSB) of the PNDT.

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