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Question
What was the primary purpose of enacting the PNDT Act in 1994?
Options
To provide universal child immunisation against preventable diseases
To introduce contraceptive pills to the national health programme
To legalise safe abortions under defined medical conditions
To ban amniocentesis for sex determination and prevent female foeticide
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Solution
The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act of 1994 was enacted by the government to enforce a statutory ban on the misuse of amniocentesis for sex determination, thereby preventing female foeticide.
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