Supreme Court raps Centre over skewed sex ratio, female foeticide

Communicating genuine concern over the skewed sex proportion in the nation, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said disappointment from the Center and the states to keep a tab on healing centers and symptomatic focuses was the boss motivation behind why female foeticide proceeded with wildly in spite of a boycott two decades prior.
A seat headed by Justice Dipak Misra addressed why the 2011 Census was all the while being depended for citing sex proportion when an inquiry was consistently looked for in 2014.
“I don’t think we ought to hold up for an alternate statistics which will come following 10 years. There ought to be some system to learn the proportion, no less than, each interchange year,” the seat said. The court, surprisingly, additionally looked for year-wise information about persons indicted for the offense as such.
The court got some information about the status of execution of the Pre-origination and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act of 1994, which banned sex determination of hatchling and female foeticide, and endorsed errant specialists be rebuffed.
Justice Misra further sought answers to whether the states have any plan to give individual incentives to families for saving the girl child. “A girl child has every right equivalent to a male child to live on the face of the Earth,” the judge noted.

The bench also formed a committee comprising of two joint secretaries and an additional secretary of the Union health ministry. Each state would have to submit, before this committee, their latest sex ratio figures, information on data relied upon and relevant registers. Displaying that the court meant business, it directed, to start with, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana Says Centre & states have failed to curb cases of female foeticide and Delhi to submit their documents before the committee by December 10.As per latest estimates, five lakh female foetus are aborted annually. According to a recent UNICEF report, India has lost over one crore girls since 2007 while 80 per cent districts have recorded an increasingly masculine sex ratio since 1991.The court was hearing a 2006 PIL filed by NGO Voluntary Health Association of Punjab. The PIL was filed following the discovery of a large number of female foetuses in a well at a doctor’s house in Punjab.
The court order came after a supreme court-appointed inspection panel-National Inspection and Monitoring Committee(NIMC)-submitted a report in the court which said female foeticide continued unabated in India and the apex court-appointed mechanism menace “almost collapsed” due to non-cooperation by the states.

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