Call to arrest declining sex ratio

Chandigarh: Jan 07, 2011

Haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati exhorted the people to supplement governmental efforts in checking the declining sex ratio and saving the girl child. She said though both Punjab and Haryana were progressive States, the sex ratio had deteriorated alarmingly in both in the past few years. The present Haryana Government, in power since 2005, took many steps to deal with this challenge and to establish a healthy sex ratio, she claimed. In all, 23 doctors and other persons had been convicted under the PNDT Act and two persons had been convicted under the MTP Act.

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