In October 2015, as many as 89 hospitals and nursing homes, which reported child sex ratio at birth of 800 girls for every 1,000 boys in Delhi, were issued show cause notices to explain the reasons behind the skewed ratio. “These hospitals and nursing homes had a sex ratio even lower than Delhi’s average. Some as low as 300 girls per 1,000 boys. It cannot be a coincidence. Something is definitely wrong and thus we have sent notices,” Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain told Hindustan Times. He added that among those who have been given notices, one hospital reported only 24 girls of the 64 deliveries it conducted, another hospital had 75 girls of the 186 deliveries — a sex ratio of 403 girls per 1,000 boys.