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| Ladakh indeed has worst sex ratio, says census office | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, April 27 The Jammu and Kashmir census department Wednesday maintained that Ladakh’s sex ratio of 583 girls against 1,000 boys, one of the worst in the country, was empirically correct.
Chief Principal Census Officer Farooq Ahmad Factoo said the department did not err by including the army and paramilitary personnel posted in the district in the census.
‘We count the army and the paramilitary personnel as per their presence in an enumeration block. This is standard practice throughout the country,’ Factoo told IANS.
The provincial figures given by the department were hotly contested by the autonomous Ladakh Hill Development Council (LAHDC) and politicians from the district who say more girls go to schools in Leh than boys.
They argued that including soldiers posted in Leh in the headcount had greatly skewed the sex ratio.
Factoo dismissed a report that suggested that the census officials had accepted that the stated facts were wrong and had decided to conduct sample surveys in Nobra and Leh to assess the figures afresh.
‘Sample surveys are being conducted throughout the state in identified enumeration blocks to cross check the authenticity of the data already obtained. Sample survey has nothing to do with re-determining the sex ratio either in Leh or elsewhere,’ he said.
‘We take a sample block or sample blocks and then do desk matching to arrive at any variation in the figures,’ Factoo maintained.
‘The figures released April 7 are provisional figures and there may be some slight variations not only in sex ratio but also in the literacy rate, population count and other variables when we arrive at the final figures.’
State Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora also contested the census figures.
‘How could they report the population of Ladakh as over 2.80 lakh as our figures of 2010 reported it to be around 1.05 lakh?’
But Factoo said: ‘All I said was that many girls from Leh could be studying outside the district and this could be a possible reason for the low sex ratio. To say that counting the army and paramilitary personnel was a mistake is totally wrong as this is the standard census procedure.
‘I am not authorized to pass comments on why the sex ratio is low in Leh. My duty is to record and communicate what the figures confirm,’ he said.
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