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Scan centres warned against sex selection

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ensuring accountability: Collector J. Chandrakumar interacting with officials on scan centres in Salem on Friday. —

SALEM: Collector J. Chandrakumar has asked the scan centres to maintain the records meticulously and warned them against revealing gender identity of foetus.

Presiding over the co-ordination committee meeting on scan centres in the district here on Friday, the Collector pointed out that those who would reveal the gender identity would be punished as per the law. He asked the officials to visit all the 196 scan centres in the district periodically and verify the documents.

The warning boards that carry the message against sex selection should be predominantly displayed in each scan centre. Unregistered scan machines would attract Rs. 20,000 as fine. Any change in the scan centres should be intimated to the officials concerned and the Collector without delay. Twenty-one primary health centres now possessed scan machines, which benefit the rural mothers enormously, he pointed out. The Government Order No.150, dated May 26, 2008 had empowered Revenue Divisional Officers also to inspect the scan centres. They could even issue licences to the new ones. The Collector also said that taluk-level monitoring committees would be formed to mount a watch over the scan centres.

Those who participated in the meeting included Dr. Kandammal (Joint Director, Health Services), Salem RDO V. Balagurumoorthy, Additional SP Elangovanand officials from scan centres.

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