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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- The PCPNDT Act 1994 is an Indian law that prohibits sex selection and regulates prenatal diagnostic techniques to prevent female foeticide and correct the declining child sex ratio.
- What is the difference between the PCPNDT Act and the MTP Act?
- What did the 2003 amendment to the PCPNDT Act change?
- Who enforces the PCPNDT Act?
- Is the pregnant woman punishable under the PCPNDT Act?

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The PCPNDT Act 1994 is an Indian law that prohibits sex selection and regulates prenatal diagnostic techniques to prevent female foeticide and correct the declining child sex ratio.

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1. 1 January 1996

   It was passed by Parliament as the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994, and came into force on .

2. 14 February 2003

   The Act was substantially strengthened by the 2002 amendment, effective from , which renamed it the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act an…

3. 22 January 2015

   In contemporary practice the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare administers the Act, and its enforcement intersects with the flagship Beti Bachao Beti Pad…

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In January 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme at Panipat, Haryana, pairing PCPNDT Act enforcement with awareness campaigns to address the state's severely skewed child sex ratio.

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