Overview
- New STF data show 912 girls per 1,000 boys from January 1 to November 10, up from 904 a year earlier, reviewed at a weekly meeting chaired by Dr Virender Yadav under Health Minister Arti Singh Rao's directions.
- The SMO of CHC Gopi in Charkhi Dadri has been chargesheeted, with show-cause notices to SMOs of Naraingarh, Mullana and Chaurmastpur and to CMOs of Palwal, Charkhi Dadri, Sirsa and Sonipat.
- Districts reporting improvement include Gurugram, Fatehabad, Panchkula, Panipat and Rewari, while Sirsa, Sonipat and Charkhi Dadri recorded declines prompting targeted directives.
- Officials ordered special drives to register unregistered girls under one year and to align Civil Registration System data with hospital delivery records to ensure accurate counts.
- Enforcement priorities include coordinated inspections of ultrasound centres, threats of licence cancellation for complicity, and efforts to raise conviction rates in illegal abortion cases.