amaravati the state is showing a healthy trend in girl population as the state government is closely monitoring the deliveries particularly in rural areas the state has ensured that 100 per cent deliveries are handled at the phc in tribal area improving the girl population rateap has already crossed the national average and also the state average in girl population ratio recorded during the last year according to the latest information the state reported the birth of 937 girl babies against each 1000 babies in the last eight months the state government has been gathering the data on a daily basis and compiling the information on a monthly basis the senior officials are closely looking into the issue and alerting the district health and family welfare administrations wherever intervention is required in fact aps sex ratio during the national family health survey nfhsv based on the information between 20192021 is 925 1000 femalemale this is little lower than the national average of 929 against 1000 taking the issue seriously chief minister ys jagan mohan reddy directed the medical and health and women and child welfare departments to jointly work to improve the girl child ratio in the state the states sex ratio during 201921 has tremendously improved over the past few years due to the focus set by the state government the female population in ap during nfhsiv conducted in 201516 was just 914 against 1000 males at the time of birth it jumped to 934 in the nfhsv survey conducted in 201921 although the sex ratio is well above the national average at the time of birth the ratio drops by the age of six years due to the high rate of infant mortality in the state the state goverment thus adopted multipronged strategies to save the girl child with the supply of nutritious food to the pregnant women at anganwadi centres and close monitoring of their health by the village secretariats the girl child population at the time of birth has also jumped to 937 in the last eight months we are focussing on reducing the infant mortality rate imr by taking a slew of measures the cms dream project family doctor will be launched next sankranti as the trial run has also been successfully completed a qualified mbbs doctor will be visiting each village to check the health of the child and the mother which will help us in bringing down imr said principal secretary health mt krishna babu