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Patna,(BiharTimes): Several districts of Bihar, including Patna, have shown a marked decline in the child gender ratio since 2001. The figure of Bhagalpur district dropped from 966 to 934 while that of Begusarai from 946 to 911.
Badalpur, on the outskirts of urban Patna, with just 630, ranks as the town with lowest gender ratio in the state. Barauli, in Gopalganj district, have highest gender ration of 1,012.
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Anyway Gopalganj topped the gender-ratio list with 1,015 females per 1000 males, which is being attributed to high levels migration from the district. In the past this position used to be grabbed by undivided Siwan districts. Long back Gopalganj used to be its part.
These figures were revealed on Friday in the Paper-II, Volume-I, of Provisional Population Total of the state, released by the joint director of Directorate of Census Operations, A K Saxena.
The overall gender ratio of Patna district is 892. In rural population, the ratio is 899, while in terms of the urban population of the district it is 883. As reported earlier too the overall literacy rate of Bihar, however, shot up during the past decade and now stands at 63.82 per cent, a 17 per cent jump from the 47 per cent in 2001. In 21 of the 38 districts of the state female literacy rate is higher than the state average. Munger district topped the list with 65.53 per cent.
While the urban population of Patna district is 25.10 lakh, the Patna Municipal Corporation and its urban extension account for 16.83 lakh of this figure.
Patliputra Housing Colony, which was considered for separate count during the 2011 census, has the highest literacy rate of 97.39% among all the towns of the state. Similarly, it also recorded the highest female literacy rate at 96.61%.
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