Overall Status of

Implementation of the
PCPNDT Act

COMMUNITY

Naveen Jain, IAS

Chairperson, State Appropriate Authority, PCPNDT
1 Medical, Health & Family Welfare Department, Rajasthan
  Sex Ratio in India & Rajasthan-CSR.
 PCPNDT Act & Relevant Rules.
 "Daughters are Precious" Campaign.
 Efforts of Rajasthan Government.
 Mukhbir and Decoy Operations.
 Learnings from Real cases
 Impact of all the exercises on SRB
 How daughters are killed?
 What we are doing to save our girls?
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 Discuss with audience
Why we discriminate against Girls?
Why we don’t want a girl child?
Safety
Religious reasons
Sons for old age support
Family name

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 "Request to the doctors not to kill the girl
On the Independence Day Hon’ble growing in the womb. Advise to the
PM. Narendra Modi mothers, Sisters, Fathers not to sacrifice
said “Save the Girl Child” daughters in the hope of son ".

Daughters are Precious

Campaign launched on 23/9/2016 by Hon’ble Minister of State for Health, GoI & State
Health Minister of Rajasthan

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 Community mobilization for reducing demand –
Daughters are Precious Campaign
Seminars in Colleges

More than 3 LakhYouth in 1123

colleges/schools were reached
through campaign

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 Daughters are Precious at Various Districts of Rajasthan

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 School
Awareness
Drive

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  What is sex selection?
Practice of determining the sex of an unborn foetus and
eliminating it if found to be female. sex selection is also referred to
as pre-natal elimination of girls.

What is female
foeticide?

• It is defined as aborting a female foetus after sex determination

test.
• Ultrasonography helps determine abnormalities in the fetus, but it
is misused to find out sex of the foetus and abortion is done if it is a
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girl.
 Root Cause of Sex determination
 Poverty
 Lack of Education
 Low status of women and girls in a male
dominated society
 The culture of son preference
 Monitoring of foetus sex determination
 Obsession for Son.
 Fear of dowry by many poor class families.
 Girls are considered as financial obligation by
many parents.
 Advancement in technology , nowadays parent
determines the sex of a child before birth.
 Some of the doctors do this heinous act to
fulfill their money desire.
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 PCPNDT-Introduction
 Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of
Misuse) Act enacted in 1994; came into force in 1996

 Act amended in 2003:

 Renamed as the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994
 Now includes prohibition of sex selection before and after
conception
 Also regulates use of pre-conception diagnostic techniques for
sex selection

 Central legislation; however, implementation completely rests with

the States through decentralised implementing mechanisms
(Appropriate Authorities) at the state/ district / sub-district
level
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 How the Act works?
 PROHIBITON:
 Sex selection before or after conception and misuse of pre-natal
diagnostic techniques for determination of the sex of the foetus
 Advertisements in relation to such techniques for detection or
determination of sex
 REGISTRATION:
 Facilitiesproviding pre-conception and pre-natal
diagnostics capable of determining the sex of the foetus
 MAINTENANCE & PRESERVATION OF RECORDS:
 Prescribes formats including Form F
 SEARCH, SEIZURE & SEALING POWERS:
 Appropriate Authorities empowered with the powers of
Civil Court
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 Strength of the Act of 1994
 Cognizable
 FIR registration- Arrest without warrant
 Non-bailable
 Police can’t grant bail
 Non-compoundable
 No negotiation

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 Who all are liable?
 Unit in-charge / owner

 Persons who perform the tests

 Mediator abetting pregnant woman’s access

 Husband / relatives of the pregnant woman

 The pregnant woman herself is considered innocent under the

Act, unless proved otherwise

 Persons / units advertising about sex selection in any form

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 The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection)
Act, 1994

Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques includes

 Ultra-sonography,
 Foetoscopy,
 Taking samples of amniotic fluid, embryo, blood or
any tissue or fluid of pregnant women before or after
conception,
 Testing samples in Genetic Laboratory to detect
genetic disorders, abnormalities or sex-linked
diseases

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 The Pre-conception and Pre-natal
Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex
Selection) Act, 1994

Imposes restrictions on:

 Clinics, medical personnel and sale of
machines
Only registered genetic clinics can use pre-
natal diagnostic techniques
By qualified medical practitioner
Prohibition of sex-selection
Prohibition on sale of ultrasound machine to
unregistered laboratories, clinics & persons
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 The Pre-conception and Pre-natal
Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex
Selection) Act, 1994

 PNDT can be used for detection of

abnormalities:
Chromosomal Abnormalities
Genetic Metabolic Diseases
Haemoglobinopathies
Sex-linked genetic diseases
Congenital abnormalities
Any other abnormalities
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 Sonography Machine

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Authorized Not Authorized
 Trend in Child sex ratio in Rajasthan
1971-2011

Major Fall of
38 Points
Due to Non
Implemention of
Act, Fall of 21 Points

PCPNDT ACT
Implemented in
1994

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 Status of Sex-Ratio and
Child Sex Ratio in Rajasthan
(A comparison during 1991; 2001; 2011)

1991- 2001-
Year 1991 2001 2011
2001 2011

Sex Ratio 910 921 926 +11 +5

Child Sex
Ratio
(0-6 years)
916 909 888 -7 -21
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 Child Sex Ratio (0-6 years)
2001 2011

Rajasthan - 909 Rajasthan - 888

21 Less than 850 850 - 899 900 to 949 950 And Above
 AAMIR KHAN
CLIP

F RO M
S AT YA M E V J AYAT E

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How Rajasthan is different in India?
 104 & 108 helpline for complaints
 IMPACT software
 Active tracker on Sonography machines
 GPS on new machines
 PBI
 Mukhbir network and then Decoy operations
 Separate courts for hearing such cases in all districts
 Beti Bachao Prakoshtha and “Daughters are Precious” campaign
 Regular inspections by Appropriate Authorities at State/ District/ Sub
Division
 Workshops, Seminars etc for awareness in community.
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 Beti Janam Badhai Sandesh &
Mukhyamantri Rajshree Yojna
Congratulatory message, signed by the
Hon’ble Chief Minister is given to every
mother who comes to government
institutions for delivery and delivers a girl
child

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 104 & 108 Toll Free Service
 Any one can file
complaint against sex Integrated Ambulance Services
determination/ selection
on
104 & 108 Toll free
services
 It is very easy to access
 Efforts have been undertaken
to create awareness about it
among the public
 Hamaribeti.nic.in Dial an Ambulance
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 IMPACT Software
Integrated Monitoring System for PCPNDT Act

Website Address - http://pcpndt.raj.nic.in

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 IMPACT Software
The website was launched on 1st Oct, 2012.
The website address is http://pcpndt.raj.nic.in.
The system is designed and developed by the
National Informatics Centre – Rajasthan.
More than 1554+ sonography centres are registered
online.
More than one crore Form-F have been submitted
online till date (since launch date).
More than 8000 online Form-F are being submitted
by centers on daily basis.- 30 lakh sonography p.a.
More than 2666+ Tracking devices have been
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installed.
 Tracking Device
 It is installed with Sonography
machine in a tamper-proof manner.
 It has common power supply with
Sonography machine.
 It captures the screen of Sonography
machine and records it in compressed
and encrypted form.
 It is able to store data for the period
of 2 years.
 It sends the status through GPRS/
SMS signal.

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 Mukhbir Yojna
 Under the scheme, State Govt. has declared Award of Rs.
2,50,000/- to the “Mukhbir” for giving authentic
information of sex selection.
 In 2016 25 decoy operations were conducted under this
scheme. (Total 96 Decoy Operations conducted in the
State including 42 Decoy Operations in 2017.)
 Under this scheme 40% of the award amount is given to
Informant, other 40% of the award amount is given to
Pregnant lady and rest 20% is given to the attendant of
the
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pregnant lady
 Award Distributed in Ratio 40:40:20

50,000
Pregnant Lady
100,000
Informer

Assistant
100,000

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Till Date total 182 people have been awarded under this scheme.
Amount
S.No Team No.'s
Awarded
1. Mukhbir 74 2373700 Note: In 9 cases
2. Mukhbir and
Assistant 61 1848700 Sahiyogi
3. Pregnant Lady 61 1030750 were same .

4. Total 200 5253150

Decoy Operations
Progress So Far from the beginning of the scheme since 2009
Total no of Decoy
Operations 96
Total interstate decoy
31 operations 26
 PCPNDT Bureau
of Investigation
First and only of such kind in
India
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 Indian Penal Code, 1860

 Section 312: Without analyzing the threat to the

life of women

 Section 313: Without the consent of the women

 Section 314: Trying to cause miscarriage and

thereby causing death

 Section 315: An act done to prevent a child from

being born/ or born alive concealing the
birth of a child
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 Section 315 IPC
Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to
cause it to die after birth-Whoever before the birth of any
child does any act with the intention of thereby
preventing that child from being born alive or causing it
to die after its birth, and does by such act prevent that
child from being born alive ,or cause it to die after its
birth ,shall ,if such act be not caused in good faith for the
purpose of saving the life of the mother, be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to ten years, or with fine, or with both.

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 Action taken by Appropriate Authorities
in the State (Till September 2017) Sonography Centres
Registrations since inception of the Act (Govt. – 2879
223+ Pvt. – 2656)

Inspections 12491
Suspension / Cancellation 196/431
Seal and Seizures 506
Complaints have been filed in the court 671

Convictions against Sonography Centres including

Dealers/ Suppliers of machines 203
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 Some recent convictions
S.No. Title Name Court Conviction Date

1. State Vs Rajendra Kachhawa Rajendra ACJM Udaipur 1 years 22/09/17

Kacchawa INR 5000 Fine

2 State Vs Arjun Lal Arjun Lal ACJM Jaipur 3 years 21/02/2017

10000 Fine

3 State Vs. Dulet Hospital, Dr. Charan Singh ADJ Jaipur 6 Month & 07.09.2017
Jaipur & Manju Dulet 5000 Fine Each

4 State Vs Chandraval Dr.Satyadev ACJM Sirohi 2 year & 26.10.16

Hospital,Abu Road,Sirohi Mehta & 1000 fine
Dr.Ramesh

5 State Vs. Prem Niketan Chandrakala ACJM Jaipur 1Year & 14.09.16
Hospital,Jaipur Parnami & 10000 Fine
Dr.Hemant
36 Mishra
 60 decoy in
last 365 days

1 operation per 7 days

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 Our speed….increasing year by year
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35 250000/
1/04/2017
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25

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200000/
15 03/03/2015
100000/-
30/7/2012
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
 Quick Glance .....
No of Decoy Total No of Arrested No of Arrested
Year
Operations person/Doctors Doctors
2009 3 3 3
2010 8 8 8
2011 3 3 3
2012 2 2 2
2013 5 14 3
2014 3 6 2
2015 5 12 2
2016 25 71 13
2017 42 114 24
Total 96 233(155 Intrastate & 76 60(38 Intrastate &
Interstate) 22 Interstate)
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 Inter-State Decoy Operations

Uttar Pradesh-9 Gujarat-7

Delhi-1 Haryana-3

Madhya Pradesh-3 Punjab-3

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 Uttar Pradesh

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Son

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 Gujarat

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 Haryana Action

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 MADHYA PRADESH Action

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 PUNJAB ACTION

05/08/2017

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 Delhi

91th DECOY OPERATION

10/10/2017
54 @ DELHI
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 International women's
Day dedicated to
unborn Girl Child by
PCPNDT Dept
Rajasthan

Getting Bail is not

so easier

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 Abortion Train

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 Decoy Operation-8th August 2017

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 Decoy operation -
13/08/2017

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Decoy Operation Dated-31/08/17

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 92nd Decoy Operation

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94th Decoy Operation 95th Decoy Operation

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 95th Decoy Operation

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 Educational Video
Growth of foetus
and
Cruel ways of
abortion
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 Finally Some good news????
What is the good news????
PCTS Data
In the last 3 calendar years 2014,2015 & 2016 based on 43+Lacs birth now our Sex Ratio at
Birth (SRB) increasing continuously...............

It was 927 in 2014 and its 939 in 2016

Year Sex Ratio at Birth

2014 927
Increase of
2015 930 52 Points
2016 939

If the trend is continued for next 5 years, CSR will become around
940 for the state (in comparison of 888 as per Census 2011)
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 CSR Vs. SRB
Positive outcomes

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 HT News….

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 Various States
Exposure Visit

1. Uttar Pradesh Team

Visited and Started
Working .

2. Jharkhand &
Himachal Team
Visited and will
start working.

3. Orissa team visited.

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 SKOCH AWARDS

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Using Social Media

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 PRASOON JOSHI
VIDEO

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 Contact US-@
Our Official Facebook ID
Pcpndt Rajasthan

Official Page-@
Daughters are Precious

Official Email-@
daughtersareprecious@g
mail.com

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in
PCPNDT
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Female Foeticide
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