Make sex determination test compulsory, says Maharashtra House panel
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MUMBAI: A key Maharashtra assembly committee has recommended making pre-natal sex determination mandatory to prevent female foeticide.
The suggestion has been made by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a report tabled in the assembly on Saturday.
The panel, headed by Congress MLA Gopaldas Agrawal, has called for bringing parents under the purview of the Pre- Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, (PCPNDT) 1994.
The committee also called for monitoring of pregnant women by local health officials to ascertain if they have aborted the foetus in case it was female.
According to the report, the sex determination test must be done when parents come for sonography and they should be tracked regularly to check if they are coming for tests even after knowing that the foetus is that of a girl child.
"When parents come for sonography, compulsory sex determination must be allowed and follow-ups must be done at the local level to ensure the couples come for further check- ups. It is necessary to visit these couples at home if they stop check-ups," it said.
The suggestion has been made by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a report tabled in the assembly on Saturday.
The panel, headed by Congress MLA Gopaldas Agrawal, has called for bringing parents under the purview of the Pre- Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, (PCPNDT) 1994.
The committee also called for monitoring of pregnant women by local health officials to ascertain if they have aborted the foetus in case it was female.
According to the report, the sex determination test must be done when parents come for sonography and they should be tracked regularly to check if they are coming for tests even after knowing that the foetus is that of a girl child.
"When parents come for sonography, compulsory sex determination must be allowed and follow-ups must be done at the local level to ensure the couples come for further check- ups. It is necessary to visit these couples at home if they stop check-ups," it said.
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