Saving girl child very complicated issue

Gustakhi Maaf Haryana-Pawan Kumar Bansal

By our enlightened reader Dhruv Chodhary, Sr Prof & Head, Pulmonary and Critical care Medicine PGIMS and University of Health Sciences Rohtak. Saving girl child.
It a very complicated issue.Yes there are many dynamics which affect the population growth, but the single important impact is due to education, availability of better birth control methods and skewed gender ratio is primarily in Indian context especially North west India is due to selective female foeticide. If you recall reports published in last century from TN, where female infants were killed as soon as they were born.
Modern technology made it easier to detect gender during anti natal period- USG primarily. With wide spread availability of technique and desire to have small families and strong social bias towards male child for various reasons, in agrarian society and middle class USG became popular. You look at it recently, a son was born after 10 girls. What was the reason??? We keep coming across women, who don’t want gender detection during pregnancy but are forced , again by the family. Today if your ist child is a boy pressure is much less.
Under these circumstances PNDT act came in nintees. It was fine to have the provision for the accountability of medical profession, but now technology is available where onus can be shifted to family from medical profession. The system needs to trace only female foetuses, because they are most vulnerable. It unshacles the technology of USG for far wider use and application. We need to discuss this at different levels to reach consensus on this issue to have a change in policy.