Presentation in WDC in Delhi University on 8th Feb 2012

2.  Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic
destruction, in whole or in part, of
an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group―.
 ..any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
group, as such:
• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.—
(Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, Article II)

3. Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and
49-78 million
1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23 million
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) 12 Million
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-
8 Million
1908)
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5 Million
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1.7 Million
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million

4. In 1990,
economist
Amartya Sen
estimated that
100 million baby
girls were
missing —
sacrificed by
parents who
desired a son.

5.  7000 girls are killed in India daily
 Number of missing girls rising in India:
UNICEF
India finds itself among countries with skewed sex
ratios in favour of boys. Some 7,000 fewer girls are
born in India daily, mainly due to female foeticide,
a UNICEF State of the World's Children report
says.
Compared to 1991 when only two districts - Salem
(Tamil Nadu) and Bhind (Madhya Pradesh) - had
adverse female sex ratio, as many as 51 districts
in India now have more male babies born
compared to female child, UNICEF says in the
report released in New Delhi on Tuesday.

9.  Less girls, more demand, their status will
improve
 Contrary to what many believe, lesser number
of girls in a society will not enhance their status.
Instead, in places where sex selection is
rampant, there can be an increase in violence
against women, rape, abduction, trafficking and
onset of practices such as polyandry.

10.  Sex selection is justified if you have two or
more daughters
 The notion that only couples with two or more
daughters are going in for sex selection and
therefore does not affect the overall child sex
ratio is misleading. In fact, data indicates that
even for the first-born, there is a preference for
a male child. This trend is even more noticeable
where the first-born is a girl

11. If dowry exists, sex selection
cannot be stopped
Sex selection is not a solution to
dowry – the system of dowry will
continue as long as people look upon
daughters as a liability. What is
important is to address the root cause
for the subordinate status of women
in the society.

12. Better to eliminate daughters than to
let them suffer an unjust existence
The thought that it is more humane to
eliminate a female foetus than subjugate
her to a life of discrimination does not hold
water. By the same logic, it would be
justifiable to eliminate poor people than let
them suffer a life of poverty and
deprivation.
 The girl child is not the problem, the
practice of sex selection is.

13. A mother has the right to choose the sex of
her child
 Another misleading notion is that banning sex
selection amounts to denying a mother her
unalienable right to choose the sex of her child.
Choice in the absence of autonomy is no
choice.
 Fears of violence and rejection/desertion and
also the desire to establish one’s value in the
family often pressurize women into opting for
sex selection.

15.  PNDT Act was necessitated because modern
technology was being misused to prevent the
conception and/or birth of girls.
 AnAct to provide for the prohibition of sex
selection, before or after conception
 MandatoryRegistration of Genetic
Counselling Centres, Genetic Laboratories
or Genetic Clinics.

16. No person, shall conduct or
cause to be conducted or aid in
conducting sex selection on a
woman or a man or on both or
on any
tissue, embryo, conceptus
, fluid or gametes derived from
either or both of them.

17. No person including a
relative or husband of the
pregnant woman shall seek
or encourage the conduct of
any pre-natal diagnostic
techniques on her or him or
both except for the purposes
specified

18. Providedthat the person
conducting ultrasonography
on a pregnant woman shall
keep complete record for
a period of two years

19. Written consent of pregnant
woman and prohibition of
communicating the sex of fetus.
Doctor has to obtain her written
consent to undergo such
procedures in the language which
she understands
a copy of her written consent is
given to the woman

20. Prohibition on sale of
ultrasound machines,
etc., to persons,
laboratories, clinics,
etc. not registered
under the Act

21. Prohibition of
advertisement
relating to pre-natal
determination of sex

22. Minor Offences For Minor Offences:
Rule No. 17(2)
•Non-availability of copy of Case may be launched in
the PNDT Act in the the court of JMIC u/s 25 of
registered centre the Act. Punishment may
•Non- Display of extend to 3 months or with
registration certificate in fine, which may extend to
the centre. Rule No. 6(2) Rs. 1,000/-for first offence.
•Non-Display of Board in Additional fine upto Rs.
the premises in English 500/- per day for the period
of contravention for
and Local Language that Rule No. 17(1) subsequent offence.
‘Disclosure of the sex of
the foetus is prohibited Or
under law’. Show cause notice u/s
20(1),(2) for temporary
suspension of registration.
Or
Under Section 20(3)

23. 3. Unregistered Section 3 Any such
centres.
equipment has
It includes all such
centres where any to be sealed
portable equipment and seized by
capable of detecting the Appropriate
sex before or after
conception is used. Authority
concerned.
He/She may
Launch the
case in the
court u/s 28 of
the Act.

24. Record Keeping Section 4, 29 Contravention (a
Irregularities in and Rule-9 major offence) of
record keeping provision of
as per revised section 5 and 6 of
form ‘F’ are a the Act and
major offence. punishable U/s
• Sex Selection 23(1) of the PNDT
Act.
Section 3A. Violation of
4(5). 6 read section 5 and 6 of
with section the Act and
2(0) punishable u/s 23
of the Act.

25.  Imprisonment for a term which may extend
to three years and with fine which may
extend to ten thousand rupees
 on any subsequent conviction, with
imprisonment which may extend to five
years and with fine which may extend to
fifty thousand rupees

26.  As concerned citizens, it is our responsibility to
see that our fellow citizens – neighbours,
relatives, office colleagues, our domestic staff,
acquaintances – do not indulge in sex
selection.
 We also have to be vigilant to ensure that no
members of the medical profession around
us are encouraging and abetting such
practices.

27.  FAQ on P.C-P.N.D.T act for public- by GOI
with UNFPA and CEHAT
 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide, Article II)
 Genocides of world.
 Wikipedia