A fortnight after Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao announced that the government will set up a State-level PCPNDT Task Force to curb female foeticide, the proposal is still on paper.
The Bengaluru police in November last year unearthed a prenatal sex determination racket across Bengaluru, Mandya and Mysuru districts. They arrested a doctor and his lab technician who allegedly performed around 900 illegal abortions in the last three years.
Following this, the State government has ordered a CID probe into the matter. The Minister had announced on the floor of the Legislative Council during the Belagavi session that the government will take several measures, including setting up of task forces at the State and district levels at the earliest, to curb female foeticide.
