pndt act

Divisional commissioner Kumar Ravi on Thursday instructed the officials concerned to ensure that pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (PNDT) Act was effectively implemented and anyone involved in sex determination of fetus was strictly punished.

Ruling SAD-BJP combine has been making tall claims to improve sex ratio with strict implementation of pndt act, but the figures have different story to tell -- things have taken a turn for worse ever since this alliance took over the reins of the state.

During the conference, issues like promotion of institutional deliveries, maternal and child health services, immunization, TB control, pndt act, National Rural Health Mission, AIDS Control, etc., were also discussed.

HOSHIARPUR: Despite authorities' claim that no sex determination tests were being conducted in this district, a couple of nursing homes are still conducting these tests.

The strict enforcement of the pndt act notwithstanding, parents still find ways and means to eliminate the girl child.

Haryana's Jhajjar district, which was at the bottom in the child sex ratio in the country during the 2001 census, has witnessed significant improvement.

In 2011, 21 clinics and 22 doctors were convicted under the Pre-Conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, for carrying out sex selection of an unborn child.

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At long last, Haryana has decided either to bring forth an ordinance or issue a fresh notification to notify the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act with retrospective effect from 1997.

Terming the decline in child sex ratio (0-6 years) as an 'emergency', civil rights workers say there is lack of political will to address the issue which requires a national policy from the government before the situation goes out of hand.

Dr Girijesh Agarwal, a homeopath who illegally doubled up as a gynecologist in Meghaninagar, was nabbed red-handed revealing the fetus' sex to a pregnant mother, in a sting operation carried out on Monday.

To do away with the practice of sex determination of foetus, the government has decided to run a special propaganda campaign to uproot this social evil.

The sex ratio in Haryana has dipped again in 2010 after encouraging signs of reversal in 2009, showing that female foeticide is still prevailing across the state.

Subhashini Ali criticised UP govt for not registering a case against four doctors who were found guilty of violating of the PC pndt act in Agra.

Hundreds of cases have been filed against doctors violating the PC pndt act.

An ultrasound centre at Sriram Memorial Hospital in Sikanderpur was sealed by a team of health department officials for violation of pndt act

The detective agency hired by the department of health and family welfare, Punjab, to check female foeticide conducted its first successful sting operation on Tuesday in Amritsar leading to the arrest of a female doctor under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques

Now, relying on technical expertise on handling of ultrasound centres may not be enough to run these centres, as the CMO office is planning to hold random tests to check the knowledge of working employees about the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Test (PNDT) Act before giving clearance to these centres.

The first conviction under PC pndt act was reported 12 years after registration of cases began in UP.The conviction came in a case lodged by Maharajganj district administration on May 9, 2013.

As soon as Census 2011 exposed Punjab's dark underbelly, putting it at the bottom of the country's sex ratio list, the state health minister, Laxmi Kanta Chawla, was candid enough to admit that her department is under tremendous pressure from politicians, including some ministers, to drop or dilute cases against those violating the pndt act.

The Union health minister has reconstituted an all-new central supervisory board (CSB) to ensure a stringent implementation of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & pndt act) that bans female feticide.

Deputy CMO and nodal officer, pndt act, Dr Neelam Kakkar, who led the raids, said, "The doctor who is running the Kamla nursing home is not eligible to conduct abortion.