"Declining sex ratio in India is an alarming issue and improvement of basic healthcare facilities and nutrition of pregnant women should be the only aim to curb all socio-cultural practises and discrimination against women," Chiranjeevi said.
Speaking at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the union minister said it has to be an on-going process to educate people about not only saving the girl child, but also about maintaining a healthy gender balance in the society.