The census also reveals a continuing preference for boys - India's sex ratio is at its worst since independence.
Female foeticide remains common in India, although sex-selective abortion based on ultrasound scans is illegal. Sons are still seen by many as wage-earners for the future.
Statistics show fewer girls than boys are being born or surviving. The gender imbalance has widened every decade since independence in 1947.
According to the 2011 census, 914 girls were born for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, compared with 927 for every 1,000 boys in the 2001 census.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12916888
Anyone want to speculate on why the gender imbalance has actually
increased over this past decade? I can understand somewhat why it was there to begin with, but one would think that as India further develops and modernizes that the gender ratio would equalize a bit.
