Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar lal on Thursday conveyed his concern to Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, for the Aayog having relied on dated and sampling data in its recent report titled ‘Healthy States, Progressive India’ that makes it appear that Haryana’s performance in Health Sector is declining.
During the meeting between the two here, the Chief Minister clarified that data for 2016-17 was readily available at the time of the report and had it been taken into consideration significant improvements registered by Haryana on all indices compared with 2015 would have easily been recognized.
In a note that Chief Minister handed over to Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, it has been clarified that Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) has actually shown a two point decline from 24 in 2015 to 22 in 2016 whereas the report cites the previous increase from 23 in 2014 to 24 in 2015.
Similarly, the Under Five Mortality Rate has declined from 42 in 2015 to 37 in 2016 whereas the report cites the previous increase from 40 in 2014 to 42 in 2015. The full immunization coverage which the report shows increased from 82.54 in year 2014 to 83.47 per cent in 2015 has further improved to 89.13 per cent in 2016.
As per latest SRS 2014-16 the sex ratio at birth is 832 and as per CRS report the SRB was 900 for year 2016 and 914 for year 2017. The SRB data of CRS was also validated by third party agency
The CM said that it clearly reflects the efforts made by the State to improve the sex ratio at birth after launch of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyan by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
These efforts have yielded encouraging results in sex ratio at birth.