CHANDIGARH, Nov. 4 -- Haryana appears set for a turnaround in its fight against gender imbalance as the State's Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) has improved to 913 girls per 1,000 boys between January and October 2025, compared to 905 during the same period last year, it is learnt.

Top Haryana health department officials say that if the trend sustains in the final two months, the eight points improvement so far (from 905 in 2024 till October to 913 in 2025) is a clear sign that the combined 12 months SRB of the state this year should be better than 2024 when the state recorded 910 female births, the lowest in eight years.

As Haryana's annual SRB in 2024 (910) had dipped from 916 in 2023, it had set the alarm bells ringing in the Nayab Singh Sa...