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Parvathi Menon

30 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read

In a radical finding, the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) in its latest survey and report finds that India's sex ratio, often lamented in the past, is finally skewed towards women: India now has 1,020 women for every 1000 men. 1/4 #BharatKiBeti
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Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen in a 1990 essay in the New York Review of Books had famously called it 'the missing women' of India when, back then, the ratio was abysmal at 927 women per 1000 men. Not any more as per a NFHS report released on Nov 24th 2/4 #BharatKiBeti

This report will probably not get enough coverage or be picked up in general discussions - but these numbers are big. It means that the many schemes under #betibachaobetipadhao over the last few years are beginning to yield outcomes that favour girl children.
3/4 #BharatKiBeti

The positive sex ratio is a significant milestone achieved on the back of policies aimed to curb sex selection practices that were once rampant, and female infanticide, and on the fact that women in India tend to live longer than men.
4/4 #BharatKiBeti

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Do you wonder why the ‘protest’ at the Delhi border hasn’t stopped even after #FarmLawsRepealed?
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While the FabIndia ad has been reduced to a bindi & Urdu debate, I think a core issue is that, like many enterprises that start with a social purpose, after a point they lose mission focus & growth is dictated purely by commerce. So the identity begins to shift.. 1/4

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Historic decisions for the #agri sector with the ordinances announced by the Union Govt, creating a progressive path forward for India's farmers, intermediaries & agri-entrepreneurs. My take on the impact in simple terms, from a farmer/ agri-entrepreneur lens...

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Previously, farmers with marketable surplus could only sell to Licensed buyers such as State & private mandis, APMC licenced cold storages/ warehouses/ Companies. But these buyers could sell to anyone! A very skewed market, right!? Farmer lost earning, Trader gained margins!

2/n
Further, with the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) Govt had the right to impose price or stock control on commodities or ban exports at any time. This created intense volatility & trust deficit. No entrepreneur small or large wanted to venture into this unpredictable quagmire.

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