A new trend is emerging in 'India Shining' where couples travel to Thaíland for gender selection. Since the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (PNDT), was introduced gender selection is banned in India. This Act has certainly not put an end to male-preference notion in the country where its present sex ratio is 933 girls:1000 boys This does not mean that many illegal clinics do not operate around the country. Couples wishing to have a boy either because they already have a girl child or who wish to have only a male child can easily go such clinics, can get the gender of the fetus detected and aborted, in case it is a female. In India the notion of preference for male child cuts across all socio-economic strata.
Now many, who can of coruse shell out anything between 
4-6 lakh, can travel to Thailand and get the gender of the fetus selected without having to go to trouble for abortion. This is indeed a very upsetting trend and raises questions about how can we allow in this age, where we keep talking about ''new emerging India'', ''super global power'' still harbor such thoughts and practice them. The worse part is that even those highly educated indians do practice it. States like Haryana and Punjab have very bad sex ratio as compared to the rest of the country and in many of the towns and villages of these two states there are no girls; men are already over thirty and parents are finding difficult to find brides for their sons. Many have to sell their land or find ways to collect 30,000-40,000 to get brides from others indian states or even from Bangladesh.
4-6 lakh, can travel to Thailand and get the gender of the fetus selected without having to go to trouble for abortion. This is indeed a very upsetting trend and raises questions about how can we allow in this age, where we keep talking about ''new emerging India'', ''super global power'' still harbor such thoughts and practice them. The worse part is that even those highly educated indians do practice it. States like Haryana and Punjab have very bad sex ratio as compared to the rest of the country and in many of the towns and villages of these two states there are no girls; men are already over thirty and parents are finding difficult to find brides for their sons. Many have to sell their land or find ways to collect 30,000-40,000 to get brides from others indian states or even from Bangladesh. 
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