Chandigarh, April 23 -- Nearly 500 villages in Haryana where the sex ratio at birth (SRB) is estimated below 700 female births per 1,000 male and the pregnant women across the state will be under health department's radar which on Tuesday decided to hold Beti Bachao Beti Padaho camps in villages notorious for alarmingly low SRB.

Officials said that already the health department has identified 62,000 pregnant women who already have one or more than one female child. These pregnant women are being informed via helpline number 104 of health department that female foeticide is a crime.

The State Task Force (STF), set up to take steps to deal with a host of identified issues which are at the core of the dip in the SRB, met here under the cha...