The Health Department has called for self-regulation by doctors to ensure that the provisions of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act are strictly implemented . It said the sophisticated technologies used for determining genetic abnormalities should not be misused.
A workshop organised here by the district health administration, which is authorised to implement the Act in the district, said that doctors and those running sonography or diagnostic clinics had to ensure that they followed all formalities required by the Act so that they were not penalised for technicalities.
It said that though some 350 doctors across the country had been booked under the provisions of the Act, only three had been found to have committed serious offences, while the others were pulled up for not fulfilling the legal provisions required under the Act.

Taming inflation

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the UPA Government was committed to tame inflation in the coming months and has made strenous efforts to shield the poor and the vulnerable from it.
"I am satisfied and I am confident that in the coming months, we will tame inflation and bring it back to reasonable levels. This is our commitment," he said