NGOs working in this village on maternal health and female foeticide say the declining sex ratio is indeed one of the major reasons behind a practice like bride buying. Sunil Singh of Rahi foundation, an organisation which works on the issue of maternal health and female foeticide in the district, says, “These women who have been bought as wives have no rights at all. They are bought here only as commodities and nothing else. One can also see that the women are being trafficked here from poorer states like Orissa and West Bengal because their families need the money to survive.”

Neelam Singh of Vatsalya, an NGO working in the state against female foeticide, said, “Women are becoming commodities to produce babies and satisfy sexual needs and they are being bought for this reason. Such practices have come up because of a low sex ratio. The administration and the Government should ensure that practices like female foeticide are stopped so that the situation can change in the years to come.”