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Move to fight female foeticide

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has decided to appoint a working group to generate awareness about gender issues and formulate strategies to check female foeticide. The group, comprising doctors, social activists, lawyers and voluntary groups, will meet once in every three months.

State Medical and Health Minister Aimaduddin Ahmed Khan said while inaugurating a “learning site” on gender issues here earlier this week that the working group would play a significant role in making the movement against gender discrimination stronger in Rajasthan.

Mr. Khan said the institutional structure to check the misuse of ultrasound machines had been strengthened by the establishment of a special cell to implement the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994. “Efforts are underway to check the declining sex ratio by discouraging the preference for a son,” he added.

The Minister pointed out that the latest facility for online registration of complaints regarding violation of the PC-PNDT Act would help curb female foeticide. The new website would enhance the capacity of activists working in the field, he noted.

The website has been launched by the Centre for Advocacy and Research in collaboration with Tata Education Trust and Shikshit Rozgar Prabandhak Samiti.

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