Question

Congragulations! You have been appointed as the District Magistrate of city X. You visit a government school on your first day of inspection of city X. You are shocked to see very less number of female students compared to male students in the school. Which of the following metrics would you order the officials to survey on in order to make a report on the issue and find a solution? You also set city Y as your ideal target to achieve the aforementioned metrics. Because city Y has exactly the same number of male and female population. Identify the corresponding metric and city Y.

• A. Sex ratio, Kanyakumari
• B. Population density, Kanyakumari
• C. Sex ratio, Sivagangai
• D. Population density, Sivagangai

Answer 1

The correct option is C Sex ratio, Sivagangai

Sex ratio is defined as the number of females per 1000 males in a given population. In a society that treats males and females equally, the sex ratio is close to 1:1 or 1000 females for every 1000 males. In our country, the sex ratio of the population is 940 in 2011 as against 933 in 2001. In our state sex ratio was 987 in 2001 and 995 in 2011. Nilgiris topped the chart with 1041 followed by Thanjavur at 1031. Sivagangai district has the same number of males and females.