Deputy Commissioner S R Umashankar has directed the Health and Family welfare Officer to close the derecognised scanning centres in the district.

Presiding over a meeting held to discuss the issue, he said that there are already 10 such centres in the district out of 51 which have been running without prior permission.

He also gave orders to form an investigative meeting at the taluk level in the presidentship of the tahsildar under the act of prohibition  of sex determination of the foetus and also a report should be given after conducting a supervising meeting.

The team should visit and supervise the works of the scanning centres regularly, he said. He also requested the public to complain him or the  district health and family welfare officer or the tahsildar against those scanning centres which are involved in the determining the sex of the foetus.

Training

He also advised the officials to impart medical administaration training under the information education and communication programme. He also ordered to stick pamphlets at the primary health cenrtres.

District blindness eradication officer Dr N Sujatha said that 631 students with eye defects have been distributed spectacles at the eye-check up camp held for 86,850 school children who are studying in their 5th and 7th standards. There are already 3,152 surgical operations done out of targeted 13,000, she added.

BPL cards

The deputy commissioner asked the food and civil supply officials to distribute the BPL cards to the deserved beneficiaries of the scheme and to dipossess the cards of the undeserved families from the temporary list.
He also aked the tahsildars to take suitable measures for the proper implementation of the scheme so that the deserved should get the cards.

He also asked those families which do not come under the scheme to return the cards to the office of the tahsildar.

Renovation

He directed the officials to check out the conditions of school buildings and asked to take up renovation works of such buildings.