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The passage given below is followed by three statements. Choose the one that can be the correct assumption on which the passage is based. How are our girls faring? In a large and diverse country, anecdotal evidence cuts several ways. But one hard, remorseless, empirical reality is son preference. That distressing social bias flourishes. As against a Sustainable Development Goal of achieving a sex ratio at birth of 954 by 2030, a Niti Aayog update finds the national average still at a distant 899.
The passage given below is followed by three statements. Choose the one that can be the correct assumption on which the passage is based. How are our girls faring? In a large and diverse country, anecdotal evidence cuts several ways. But one hard, remorseless, empirical reality is son preference. That distressing social bias flourishes. As against a Sustainable Development Goal of achieving a sex ratio at birth of 954 by 2030, a Niti Aayog update finds the national average still at a distant 899.
I. Offenders are unafraid of laws that prohibit sex selection in India.
II. Sex determination and diagnosis at prenatal and preconception stage in India are not prohibited.
III. Policymakers will have to come up with specific incentives-perhaps, more attractive grants for bringing up daughters.
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