chandigarh haryana saw an increase in infant and neonatal mortality rates during the pandemic while the female fertility rate declined its recorded in the economic survey report that the central finance ministry released on mondaythere was decline in the count of households using improved sanitation methods along with clean fuel in the kitchen the burning of crop stubble and extraction of groundwater continued to be a cause of worry during national family health survey 201516 haryanas infant mortality rate imr was 328 which reached 333 during the pandemic the death figure of children up to the age of 5 declined a little in that time to 387 compared with 411 of the year 201516the neonatal deaths increased from 216 in the year 201516 to 221 in the pandemic period even the best allocations under various heads failed to improve its lifestyle of the states households or motivate them to use improved methods of sanitation and clean cooking fuelthe survey report suggests that in the year 201516 850 of the households in haryana used improved sanitation and 595 used clean fuel for cooking between 2019 and 21 the number of households using improved sanitation declined to 806 and that of households using clean fuel to 522the slogan of beti bachao beti padao seems to have worked in the state the states sex ratio of girls up to the age of 5 had reached 893 during the pandemic from a level of 836 reported in the year 201516 the fertility rate children born to each woman declined to 19 in the pandemic year from 21 reported in the year 201516