Arunachal records best sex ratio

- The Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, has released its 2018 report on the ‘vital statistics on India based on the Civil Registration System’.
- According to the report, Arunachal Pradesh recorded the best sex ratio in India with 1,085 females born per thousand males, while Manipur fared the worst with just 757.

Arunachal Pradesh recorded 1,084 females born per thousand males, followed by Nagaland (965) Mizoram (964), Kerala (963) and Karnataka (957). The worst was reported in Manipur (757), Lakshadweep (839) and Daman & Diu (877), Punjab (896) and Gujarat (896).
Sex ratio was determined on the basis of data provided by 30 states and Union Territories. Data was not available for six states namely Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
The report also added that the level of registration of births had increased to 89.3% in 2018 from 81.3% in 2009, with the number of registered births being 2.33 crore in 2018, after 2.21 crore in 2009.
The official time limit for registering births and deaths is 21 days. The certificate regarding the same is then issued, free of cost, by the Registrar within that time period.
However, some states allow for births and deaths to be registered even after a year. On this, the report says that, “births and deaths reported after one year of occurrence shall be registered only on an order of the Magistrate of the First Class after verifying the correctness and on payment of the prescribed fee.”

The office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India was founded in 1961 by the Ministry of Home Affairs for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India, including census and linguistic survey.
Apart from conducting the Population Census and monitoring the implementation of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act in the country, it has been giving estimates on fertility and mortality using the Sample Registration System (SRS).

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