Uttarakhand drive to check sex-determination tests
July 9th, 2012 - 11:54 pm ICT by IANSDehradun, July 9 (IANS) To curb rampant sex-determination tests and prevent a fall in the gender ratio, the Uttarakhand government Monday directed district magistrates to ensure regular inspection of 522 private and 79 government-run ultra sound centres.
The government also told the officials to position in all ultra sound machines ‘active trackers’ that would send SMS alert messages to district magistrates and chief medical officers in case sex-determination tests were conducted.
Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain said that district magistrates would be responsible to check sex-determination.
He said as per the 2011 census, the sex ratio of children aged less than six years was 1,000 boys to 886 girls as against 1,000 to 967 in 2001.
Jain also directed officers to initiate an abortion audit system like the maternal death audit system.
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