Girls in Punjab face a double dilemma: they are born in less numbers but die in more numbers. Altogether, more than one lakh girls might have gone 'missing' in Punjab during the last one decade on account of sex-selective abortions leading to fall in SRB, and additionally, about half of this number might have gone 'missing' on account of higher female mortality rates in the younger age groups. Regardless of the class, caste, religion, region or the income status, women in this state are increasingly going in for the sex determination tests and getting the female foetuses aborted. However, Sikhs, Non-SCs, literates /educated and rich are doing so at a much higher level/ faster pace than others.