The commission has asked the health and family welfare department to utilise funds within the stipulated time in 2009-10 to combat female foeticide - the killing of the unborn female child to fulfill the desire for male progeny.

Stressing the need for the department to forcefully implement the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act, which prohibits sex determination tests of unborn children, the commission asked officials to use the provision in the NRHM budget to give prizes to obtain information by sending decoy patients or through undercover operations.

The commission pointed out that in Punjab's 20 districts, only 13 licences were suspended under the PNDT Act in 2009.