What's Going Wrong? The enforcement of the PCPNDT Act, 2003

What's Going Wrong? The enforcement of the PCPNDT Act, 2003, which prohibits sex determination tests on the foetus (leading to abortion in many cases if it is found to be a female), has been far from satisfactory. The main reasons for this have been:

 1. poor supervision of genetic and ultrasound clinics 

2. unethical and illegal practices by concerned doctors/ radiologists rampant misuse of technology 

3. fast increase in the number of ultrasound clinics over the 

4. years poor implementation of the PCPNDT Act

5. failure of genetics centres to generate any records of 

6. illegal sex determination: there are no complainants and no evidence. Unfortunately, like many other acts, this act also faces implementation problems, 

7. no effective monitoring mechanism

8. no proper knowledge of the law and procedures

 8. no standardisation in practices, record keeping, etc. 

9. problems of under-reporting and false reporting 

10. problems of under-reporting and false reporting

11. failure to report critical records, as a result of which no proofs/evidence is available to authorities to take action