Chandigarh, April 12 -- The Haryana health department has issued show-cause notices to senior medical officer in-charges of 12 community health centres from areas that reported low sex ratio, officials said.
The move is part of the government's efforts to crack down on female foeticide in the state.
According to Director of National Health Mission in Haryana Virender Yadav, who is also convenor of the State Task Force (STF) set up to take action against people involved in female foeticide, "We have been strictly implementing the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act in the state. As a result, registrations of 300 erring Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) centres have been cancelled or voluntarily withdrawn."...