Block websites on gender selection: Health to IT

New Delhi: Jul 29 2011

Concerned about the plummeting sex ratio, the Union Health Ministry has now written to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (IT) to block websites relating to gender selection. The Health Ministry also asked the IT Ministry to block the websites promoting advertisements on gender testing techniques. “As the issue of declining child sex ratio is of utmost importance, a policy decision to block the websites that host advertisements /material relating to sex selection needs to be taken,” says the letter.

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