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Southern and north-eastern states get A grade on gender, Gujarat gets a D August 15, 2013 , By Special Correspondent The States reporting the best sex ratios are Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, while the worst off States are Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab India’s southern and north-eastern States get an A grade on a multi-indicator gender scorecard, while Gujarat gets a D and Delhi a G. The Delhi Policy Group, a non-partisan Delhi-based research and advocacy group, prepared the scorecards by ranking States and the Centre on seven indicators — sex ratio, health, education, political representation, crimes against women, employment and decision-making — and grading them from A to J (one to ten) relative to their distance from an ideal score. Each indicator had on average four or more indicators within it, and all the data was from official sources, Radha Kumar, director-general of the DPG, said. The grades were dynamic, meaning that change over time improved scores. In