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Hooda launches campaign against female foeticide

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday emphasised the need for creating mass awareness to effectively check the menace of female foeticide in the State.

Talking to media persons shortly after launching an awareness campaign against female foeticide organised by Janmajey Jan Kalyan Charitable Trust at his residence here, he observed that the “success of any law largely depends on awareness for the cause”.

Interestingly, instead of formally flagging off the “rath” to launch the campaign, Mr. Hooda opted to himself drive the vehicle as a symbolic gesture.

He pointed out that Haryana was the only State in the country to record two convictions of doctors under the Pre-natal Diagnostic Technique Act. The doctors along with technicians were sentenced to imprisonment and fined. Haryana had also recorded two more convictions under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act sentencing the doctors involved along with the patient.

The State Government was implementing several schemes to enhance the educational and economic status of girls, he added. Vinod Kumar Misher, general secretary of the Trust, said that during this campaign signatures of people would be sought with a commitment that neither they would indulge in female foeticide nor let anyone commit it.

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