Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 30 October 2025
The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, is a Central laws enacted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to ban intercourse choice and regulate the usage of pre-natal diagnostic methods. Amended in 2003, the Act goals to forestall feminine foeticide by banning the misuse of know-how for intercourse willpower earlier than or after conception. The Act mandates the registration of all diagnostic and imaging centres and prescribes stringent penalties for violations.
In accordance with Section 18 of the PC & PNDT Act, each Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory, Genetic Clinic, or any facility geared up with ultrasound machines, imaging gear, scanners, or any know-how able to figuring out the intercourse of the foetus or facilitating intercourse choice should be registered underneath the Act.
Centres completely providing CT or MRI companies and never at present registered underneath the Act are required to use for recent registration with the State Appropriate Authority. Centres already registered underneath the PC & PNDT Act are mandated to tell the Competent Authority in regards to the gear in use.
The Act supplies for stringent penal provisions in opposition to any individual, medical practitioner, or establishment discovered violating its provisions. Advertisements, together with these on the web, regarding pre-conception and pre-natal intercourse willpower or intercourse choice are strictly prohibited. Violations of the Act or its guidelines entice penalties together with imprisonment, fines, suspension or cancellation of registration, and disciplinary motion in opposition to people or establishments concerned in intercourse choice or associated malpractices. The common public is urged to report any cases of unlawful intercourse willpower or violations of the PC & PNDT Act to the Director of Health Services, the State Appropriate Authority, or the involved District Appropriate Authority.
The Directorate of Health Services, A&N Administration, has registered a complete of 25 healthcare services underneath the provisions of the PC & PNDT Act. All services had been duly inspected previous to the grant of registration, and common periodic inspections are performed by the Appropriate Authority to make sure strict compliance with the Act’s provisions, guidelines, and pointers.
The State Appropriate Authority reiterates its agency dedication to eliminating gender discrimination and selling the welfare of the woman little one by way of the efficient enforcement of the PC & PNDT Act within the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
