Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 3 -- Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has instructed the officers, to lay more emphasis on the stricter enactment of laws, pertaining to the prevention of female foeticide and to maintain sex ratio and to organise special awareness programmes.

Minister Rao came out with several observations and instructions, during the progress review meeting of Health and Family Welfare Department, Mysuru Division, at the auditorium of Regional Commissioner's office in city on Monday.

Sex ratio

Referring to the statistics provided by officials, Rao said, in Mandya district alone, the sex ratio is; 908 females per 1,000 males (which was corrected by the District Officers as 936 girl children, as mentioned in RCH d...