Emerging Factors of Across Region Marriages in Haryana: A Sociological Study

Low sex ratio especially in North West India is not a new phenomenon. The sex ratio has been declining ever since recorded in 1871 Census. There is a great deal of concern by demographers, sociologists and policy planners on the ever declining sex ratio. Haryana is one of the economically prosperous state but when it comes to the social development, it is still quite backward as is clearly reflected in poor sex ratio of the state, i.e. 877/1000 males against the national average of 940/1000 males. It is even poorer in the age group of 0-6 and that is 830/1000 males against the national average of 914/1000 males. Not only due to continuously declining sex ratio, there are so many other factors to encourage the across region marriage in Haryana like as poverty, addiction, illiteracy and unemployment etc.