Do Sex Test By USG To Save Girl Child, Maharashtra Parliamentary Panel

To correct Indian Male to female ratio and to check female foeticide or girl child abortion while PNDT Act and FOGSI and Central and State government do not allow sex determination of the foetus at all by USG or blood test or amniotic fluid assay, recommendation was made by a Maharashtra assembly committee, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), towards making pre-natal sex determination mandatory in order to prevent female foeticide.
They say as it is a law where only doctors are regulated and patients are not booked so many illegal abortions took place as patient once knowing illegally that she is carrying female child goes to many quacks to get it aborted and as sex can't be determined so initially too they move to illegal sex clinic where even proper diagnosis is not made, if sex of child will be told to parent on the first USG by an expert and they will be labelled and now monitoring them carefully and even home visits will control killing of girl child better.
The panel was led by MLA, calling for parents to be brought under the PCPDNT Act (1994).
Monitoring by local health officials of pregnant women was also called for to ascertain if abortion of fetus was in the case of discrimination against the girl child.
Sex determination tests are also prescribed when parents reach for sonography and that they must be tracked regularly, noting ‘when parents come for sonography, compulsory sex determination must be followed 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.
Since the law only provides for action against doctors (for carrying out sex selection tests), there is no fear of the law among parents. But this fear of law among parents is necessary to increase the sex ratio. Doctors, parents, district health officers (DHOs) and NGOs must be involved in the tracking system.