To put an end to the menace of female foeticide, Haryana Government has conducted 24,947 inspections following which registration of 613 centres were suspended or cancelled, 448 centres were sealed and FIRs were lodged in 185 cases.
“After the launch of ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ programme in 2015, the State Government had intensified its campaign to curb illegal centres and doctors involved in sex selection throughout the state,” said Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij.
He said that 68 persons including 44 doctors have been convicted and charges have been framed by the court against 18 doctors.
Apart from this, the State Medical Council had suspended 14 licences after conviction by the court and six licences after charges framed by the court, said Vij.
The Minister also said that 1,733 meetings of the district advisory committee and 254 of district task force were held up to November 2016.
He said that there has been considerable improvement in sex ratio in 18 districts of the state as a result of the awareness and intensive inspection campaign being run by the Health Department under BBBP.
The sex ratio in 12 districts has crossed the 900-mark, he said. Giving details, the Minister said that the sex ratio in six districts is between 875 and 900 girls per 1,000 boys. District Sirsa has registered the highest sex ratio at 926 girls per 1,000 boys, Panchkula at 924, Fatehabad and Palwal at 917, Karnal at 915, Hisar at 914, Panipat at 913, Ambala at 910, Mewat at 909, Sonipat at 903, Rohtak at 901 and Jind at 900.
Besides, sex ratio in Yamunanagar and Bhiwani is 894 girls per 1,000 boys, in Kaithal it is 893, 891 in Faridabad and Gurugram, 879 in Jhajjar, 870 in Rewari, 852 in Kurukshetra and lowest sex ratio was registered in Mahendragarh at 841 girls per 1,000 boys, he added.
Haryana, which had the worst sex ratio among states in the 2011 census, was chosen by Prime Minister to launch the nationwide ambitious ‘BBBP’ in 2015 from Panipat district. Haryana had the lowest child sex ratio of 834 compared to the national average of 919 (according to census of India 2011).