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Sex ratio decreases in Mehsana Thursday, June 28, 2001
By Kiran Mathur, The Times of India News Service
MEHSANA, June 27: With its literacy rate standing at 75.54 in 2001, Mehsana stands fifth in Gujarat which holds fifteenth rank in the country with 69.97 average.
The 1991 census had recorded 68.39 literacy rate in the district which was bifurcated in 1997 and Patan was carved out of it. The reconstituted Mehsana is a bit ahead of Surat and Anand whose respective average literacy rates are 74.59 and 74.95 and it is only a shade behind Rajkot whose average is 75.88.
Mehsana is also among those 10 districts whose average is above the state average. On the contrary the newly formed Patan with its literacy rate of 60.50 is among those 12 districts whose average is lower than the state's. Patan's overall position in the state is 20th.
In 1991 in male literacy undivided Mehsana with an average of 81.05 stood fourth in the state. Though this average in the reorganised district has recorded an increase of 6.7 per cent with 86.52 average in 2001 it has slumped to fifth position after Kheda whose average stood at 86.58 in the recently concluded 11th census of the country as against its 1991 figure of 79.83.
In female literacy, Mehsana has recorded an increase of 15.9 per cent during the past decade. its 2001 figure stands at 63.96 whereas as it was 55.22 in 1991.
However, the district lost its fifth rank which it held in the previous census before bifurcation in 1997. Now it stood sixth after Gandhinagar whose score was 64.85.
If Gujarat with only 919 females per thousand males ranks 22nd in the country. Mehsana's position among its 25 districts is far from satisfactory. With 926 females per thousand males it holds 12th rank in the state which is far below 933:1000 in Patan, which holds 9th position.
In 1991, the then Mehsana had ratio of 951 and held the 9th rank in the state. The decrease in sex ratio in the district between 1991 and 2001 is an alarming 2.7 per cent as against the state's 1.7 % in the past decade.
The district like elsewhere in the state and the country has revealed the trend of decreasing sex ratio except in 1951 when women had just outnumbered men with the ratio of 1002.
The female-male ratio in the district had shown an increase in 1931, 1951 and 1981. However, the overall decreasing trend continued with an average of 947 since 1901. The 2001 figures of 926 is alarmingly below the average dip.
As per the provisional figures of population of Mehsana put at 18,37,696 the male segment accounts for 954,006 and women 883,690.News Source : Times Of India News Service [ Lightning News ]
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