FAQ
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When to Complain
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How to Complain
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Where to Complain
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Frequently asked Questions
   
 

When to Complain

  • If an advertisement to provide the services of any kind of sex selection is published
  • If a clinic using the pre-conception and pre natal diagnostic techniques is not registered under the PC&PNDT Act. Register ion certificate need to be displayed publicly
  • If any person has got sex selection of his or her unborn child done
  • If any medical professional has communicated the sex of unborn child to his patient
  • If a clinic registered under the PC&PNDT Act is not maintained the mandatory records under the Act. In case of ultrasound scan it is Form F that has a consent form from the patient declaring that she has not detected the sex of her unborn child and medical professional affirmation that the scan was not done for sex selection
  • If any person is compelling a pregnant women to under go sex selection done.
  • if any body is assisting or facilitating the process of sex selection.
   
 

How to Complain

  • A complainant can approach the designated Appropriate Authority of the State or District or sub district. The Appropriate Authority at the State level is a high ranking health department official above the rank of Joint Director of Health and Family Welfare. But there are also officials at local level in rural and urban areas who can be approached – the civil surgeon or the chief medical officer at the district level; the chief health officer or a ward health officer in a city; and the medical superintendent.
  • A written complaint has to be made to the Appropriate Authority (AA), which has to acknowledge receipt. If the AA takes no action within 15 days, the complainant can go to Court with the acknowledgment receipt. Alternatively the complainant can also approach a social organisation like an NGO working on women’s rights issues in the area or State.
   
 

Where to Complain

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Frequently asked Questions


Last Updated Date: 12.01.2009