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'Urgent need to restore gender balance in
J&K'
Sunday July 22, 2012 06:39:30 PM, IANS
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Jammu:
Expressing concern over the "alarming decline" in Jammu and
Kashmir's sex ratio - 883 females per 1,000 males - a minister
said the government will continue to crackdown on illegal sex
determination clinics.
Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma said that his department was
taking steps to strengthening measures to balance the sex ratio.
Sharma said: "One of the main steps required to curb the menace is
to stop illegal sex determination in various ultrasonography (USG)
centers across the state. For this government has enhanced the
reward for the whistleblowers providing information about such
activities from Rs.25,000 to Rs.50,000."
The health minister said this while chairing a thematic workshop
on public private partnership to restore gender balance Sunday.
The workshop dwelt at length on declining sex ratio and measures
to capture the trend in light of pre-conception and pre-natal sex
determination techniques (PC&PNDT) act and public private
partnership to restore gender balance, social aspects of PNDT and
other related issues in implementing the act in letter and spirit.
Sharma appealed to all the sections of the society to help in
curbing the menace of female foeticide. "The recent figures of
census are eye opener for all of us. We have to give serious
thought on this issue and take corrective measures to improve the
ratio," he added.
The sex ratio in Jammu and Kashmir is at 883/1,000 while the
national average is 940/1,000.
He asked the people to create awareness among the masses against
the female foeticide and gender inequality.
He said there was a need to act tough on perpetrators of female
killing and besides, punishment, registration of such clinics can
be cancelled who violate the PC&PNDT Act, he added.
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