Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) to Government of Haryana, Health Department, Sudhir Rajpal Constituted the State Task Force (STF)
300 out of 1500 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) centres in Haryana have been cancelled or voluntarily withdrawn
Notices have been issued to 23 MTP Centres & First Information Reports (FIR) have been filed against 17 online MTP kit sellers
Nodal Officer, PNDT of district Hisar has been suspended
Show cause notices have been issued to Senior Medical Officer (SMO) in-charges of 12 Community Health Centres (CHC)
Chandigarh, April 10, 2025 - Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) to Government of Haryana, Health Department, Sudhir Rajpal Constituted the State Task Force (STF). The members of State Task Force includes Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM), Director General Health Services (DGHS) Haryana, Director General Women and Child Development, Director General AYUSH, Director of Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT), Health Department, State Drug Controller and Police Department. Virender Yadav, Director, NHM, is the convenor of STF. STF conducts reviews and field visits every Tuesday.
Virender Yadav while sharing information said, “STF is strictly implementing the PC&PNDT Act in the state, as result registrations of 300 out of 1500 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) centres in Haryana have been cancelled or voluntarily withdrawn. Notices have been issued to 23 MTP Centres this week, explaining the reasons for their closure. First Information Reports (FIR) have been filed against 17 online MTP kit sellers in the past two months. Additionally, 23 PNDT raids have been conducted in the last three months, and these centres have been closed. Further, Nodal Officer, PNDT of district Hisar has been suspended and show cause notices have been issued to Senior Medical Officer (SMO) in-charges of 12 Community Health Centres (CHC) Nahar in district Rewari, Tosham in district Bhiwani, Danoda in district Jind, Kunjpura in district Karnal, Tauru in district Nuh, Tigaon in district Faridabad, Bhattu Kalan in district Fatehabad, Ateli in district Mahendergarh, Ukalana in district Hisar, Badopal in district Fatehabad, Nissing in district Karnal and Ladwa in district Kurukshetra with low sex ratio and they will be charge sheeted if their reply is found unsatisfactory. The SMO in-charges of 03 CHCs with lowest sex ratio to be charge sheeted. Further, PNDT Nodal Officers of 05 districts Charkhi Dadri, Rewari, Rohtak, Gurugram and Faridabad with lowest sex ratio in the state have been changed with immediate effect. Civil Surgeon, Hissar is preparing to lodge criminal case and FIR against the tout Usha involved in illegal abortion. Civil Surgeon, Rohtak and Sonipat has registered FIR in Pooja case who is having 2 live girl children, who was forced to for abortion. Civil surgeon is retro-tracking the case and enquiring the family and the treating doctor”.
Virender Yadav further said, “Additional Chief Secretary, Health directed that all MTP Centres doing MTP of the pregnant women with two live girl children should be inspected and monitored regularly and if found indulged in female feticide should be closed and decision on the show cause notices issued to MTP Centres should be taken immediately and licenses of gynaecologists involved in female feticide should be cancelled. State Drug Controller was directed to get the list of MTP Kit whole sellers / stockist in the state and the sale of these kits should be restricted to registered MTP Centers only. ACS, Health Further directed that all non-registered IVF Centers should be closed and IVF Centers with skewed sex ratio should be checked thoroughly and closed if found indulged in malpractice”.
Virender Yadav further said, “All the wards (area) in urban will be allocated to ASHAs & ANMs of the concerned Urban Primary Health Centres (UPHC) / Urban Ayushman Arogya Mandir (UAAM) for the data collection to record male & female child births which will be facilitate in improving sex ratio. Health Department has identified 62,000 pregnant women with 01 or more than 01 live female child and these pregnant women are being informed via helpline number 104 of health department that female feticide is sin. Further it has been proposed that ASHA will be linked with the pregnant women having more than 2 live female children and incentive of Rs 1000 to be given to concerned ASHA by Haryana for successful delivery of female child”.
Furthermore, all departments, such as the WCD Department and Panchayati Raj etc, are spreading the message to the public to save and educate daughters. Haryana's sex ratio has improved from 910 to 911 as of today.