https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1206.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1206.html 2009-03-07T11:18:18Z text/html en Manisha Bhatia , Shaik Iftikhar Ahmed <p>Addressing the national conference on ‘Save the Girl Child', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took up the challenge of curbing the menace of female foeticide. Being a proud father of three daughters, the PM highlighting the alarming picture of gender imbalance is highly significant. It indicates the concern of the government to check the declining sex ratio in our country. Among all the States, Punjab bears the shame of having a low sex ratio. The reason for this huge gap in male-female ratio (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique98.html" rel="directory">March 2009</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article908.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article908.html 2008-09-10T10:51:36Z text/html en Shaik Iftikhar Ahmed <p>Introduction <br class='autobr' /> THE National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in 2005-06 provides information on fertility, family planning, health, nutrition, health care, HIV/AIDS and women's empowerment. This survey is the third in the series. The earlier two were conducted in 1992-93 and 1998-99. These were coordinated by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the stewardship of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW). The preliminary findings of the National (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique77.html" rel="directory">September 6, 2008</a>