Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994

[1][2][3] This process began in the early 1990 when ultrasound techniques gained widespread use in India.

There was a tendency for families to continuously produce children until a male child was born.

[4] Foetal sex determination and sex-selective abortion by medical professionals has today grown into a Rs.

Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted female foeticide in various forms skewing the sex ratio of the country towards men.

[5] According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0–6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981, to 105.8 in 1991, to 107.8 in 2001, to 109.4 in 2011.