nearly half of the female deaths in rural rajasthan are of girls below the age of 20. out of these 42% of the deaths are of girls  who havenot celebrated their fifth birthday . in short , a girl born in rajasthan village will have to be very lucky to grow up, marly ,bear children -things that are taken fairly for granted in the modern world. same is the conditions in other states as well like uttar pradesh , bihar , MP , and many states of india.what this really means the girl child is barely looked after . whooping cough , influenza,and there is a good chance that the child from these states will not be able to survive it. this tells the attitude abt the females in these states. most of the families in india even donot want girl child and if girl is born nobody pays attention towards the health care of female child . as a result of which many of them are thrown into the orphanages. i think NGO s should come forward to aware public about decline ratio of females in india and even doctors who for the sake of money conduct ultrasounds during first trimester of pregnancy to determine the sex of the child should stop such practice .