Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir are emerging as the new hotspots of declining sex ratio in India, according to a recent study published in reputed journal The Lancet. According to the study, about 95 per cent of districts in Maharashtra and Rajasthan have witnessed further decline in sex ratio, slipping towards the range of traditional hotspots. In Jammu and Kashmir, over 90 per cent districts have witnessed a sharp decline in sex ratio. The good news is that traditional hotspots Punjab and Haryana have witnessed a jump in the sex ratio along with Gujarat. In fact, all the districts of Punjab have witnessed a jump in the child (0-6 years group) sex ratio, while in Haryana 16 out of 21 districts saw a jump in the child sex ratio during 2001-2011. The big surprise, according to Prabhat Jha, the lead researcher of the study,