This document discusses the issue of sex selection and female feticide in India. It notes that while laws have been passed against killing infant girls, this practice has now taken more subtle forms of murder. It explores reasons for son preference in Indian society such as economic, social and religious factors. Statistics are provided showing alarming sex ratios in some states and the effects of this imbalance. The document outlines techniques used for sex selection like ultrasound and amniocentesis, and notes government efforts to regulate these practices through acts like the PCPNDT Act. Overall it examines the complex social and cultural reasons behind female feticide as well as legislative efforts to address this issue.

1. say no to selective sex selection of any
methods and say no to selective female
feticide and infanticide

2. INTRODUCTION
ONE LINE & SIGN FROM EACH OF YOU ON THIS WEALTH ON THE POSTER OUTSIDE

3. INDIA
INDIA IS THE 125TH HAPPIEST
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
WHY ?
WHY NOT NO 1 OR NO 2 OR 3 ?
BECOS WE HAVE NO WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

4. Infanticide of infant girls continues to be a problem.
Laws have been passed against this practice but this
has led to more subtle yet even more cruel methods
of murder.
• DO YOU AGREE ?

5. Why save the girl child ??
• Altered sex ratio in India
• Abuse of sex determination techniques
• Want of a male child only
• Social pressures on the couples and also on
the providers
• No one complains as both parties are guilty

6. Current status of sex ratio in India
census 2011-11

7. SEX RATIO
SEX RATIO OF A COUNTRY IS DEFINED AS THE NUMBER OF
FEMALES PER 1000 MALES IN THAT SET GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA
OUR NATIONAL RATIO IS 914/1000
AND IN SOME STATES AS LOW AS 800/1000

8. • Women suppression gender bias
• Want of only male child or atleast one male child for
various social and religeous beliefs and family name
continuation
• Female child not welcome
• Advent of ultrasound as a tool for detection of sex
• Advent of amniocentesis and cvs
• Mushrooming of various such centres offering such
services in urban cities in the late 1980’s
Indian Social
Scenario

9. EFFECTS OF SON PREFERENCE IN INDIA
• MOST FAMILIES KEEP HAVING CHILDREN TILL THEY
GET A SON
•BENEFITS OF SONS IN INDIAN SOCIETY
1.ECONOMIC UTILITY
2.SOCIO CULTURAL UTILITY
3.RELIGIOUS UTILITY
(DAUGHTERS ARE CONSIDERED ECONOMIC
LIABILITY,DOWRY AND SYSTEM OF HEAVY COSTS
WEDDINGS)

10. INDIA SEX RATIOS
• ALARMING IN PUNJABAND
HARYANA and DELHI
• ABOUT 800/1000 AND
773/1000
• UP 852/1000
• AGRA 852/1000(IMPROVED
TO 920/1000)
• AZAMGARH 1007/1000
• KERALA HAS A HEALTHY
RATIO OF 980/1000

11. WHAT CAN BE DONE ?
• IS SEX SELECTION
JUSTIFIED ?
• SHOULD WE HUMANS
MANIPULATE GENDER
RATIO ?

12. SEX SELECTION AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES WHAT ARE THEY ?
• SEX SELECTION TECHNIQUES PRECONCEPTION
TECHNIQUES TO INCREASE PROBABILITY OF EMBRYO
BEING OF A PARTICULAR SEX (THIS IS PROHIBITED UNDER
THE ACT)
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES (PROCEDURES AND /
OR TESTS)
USG/FETOSCOPY/AMNIOCENTESIS/CVS/BLOOD TESTS/ANY
TISSUE/FLUID OF MAN OR WOMAN BEFORE OR AFTER
CONCEPTION

13. GOVT COMMITTEES
• PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
REGULATION AND PREVENTION OF MISUSE
BILL PRESENTED IN LOK SABHA IN 1991
• SETTING UP OF A JOINT COMMITTEE
• REINTRODUCTION OF BILL IN 1992
• ADOPTED IN 1994 AS ACT 57 OF 1994
• AMENDMENTS 2001(32 OF 2001)
• AMENDMENT 14 OF 2003 AS PC PNDT

14. PCPNDT ACT WHAT IS THIS ?
THE PRECONCEPTION
AND PRENATAL
DIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUES
(PROHIBITION OF SEX
SELECTION) ACT
1994(57 OF 1994)

15. BACKGROUND PICS
SUNIL GULATI
POEMS PRATIMA
RADHAKRISHNAN AND
FRIENDS
SOME HEART TOUCHING PICTURES AND
POEMS CONTRIBUTED FOR THIS CONFERENCE

20. RAVEENA TANDON OUR BRAND
AMBASSDOR IN 2008-2009

21. DIANA HAYDEN IN 2010-2011