A special committee comprising women police and NGOs will be formed to keep a check on female infanticide and sex selective abortion cases in the district, said City Police Commissioner A Subramanian.
Inaugurating a trainers’ training programme on ‘Declining Child Sex Ratio: Perspectives, Interventions, Strategies’, which commenced here on Tuesday, Subramanian said apart from taking preventive measures, including raids, the committee would conduct extensive awareness programmes for the prevention of such inhuman acts.
Besides women police and NGOs, the committee would have representatives from Women Self Help Groups, other government department staff, village nurses, tahsildars and ‘thalayaris’.
Steps would be taken for the establishment of the committee, which would prevent infanticide and foeticide cases in the villages concerned, he added.
Analysing the background for the deplorable situation, he said that families, who viewed the girl child as a burden, are indulging in such inhuman acts.
Referring to a survey conducted in the district some years ago, the Commissioner said that about 188 villages in Madurai were identified having high number of foeticide and infanticide cases. Police are on high alert in curbing the functioning of pre-natal diagnostic centres and also doctors performing sex determination tests.
District Social Welfare Officer M Jayalakshmi, in her address, said the protection of women could be taken care of by women themselves.
She also added that affected women would be provided asylum in care homes (sevai illams), functioning under the Social Welfare department. SIRD director M Jeeva presided over the meeting.
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