Center today said that it is adopting multi pronged strategy to strike a balance in the child sex ratio in the country. Addressing a conference of state health ministers in New Delhi, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that center has allotted funds as demanded by the state governments to strengthen their campaigns against female foeticides. He added that the center has constituted empowered committees to monitor the implementation of various schemes initiated by the center in this regard.

Mr. Azad said that aggressive attitude adopted by the center is showing results. He added that many clinics conducting illegal sex determination tests have been banned in the past few months by the Central Inspection Teams for violating the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Sex Determination Test (PC & PNDT) Act.

The Union Health Minister insisted all the state governments to encourage the families with girl child economically to weed out the problem of female foeticide from the society. He said that government is also focusing on generating mass awareness among the masses in this regard.