Indian state offers prizes for sterilisation
Women in Rajasthan offered chance to win food processors and cars in controversial effort to slow baby boom.
Last Modified: 06 Dec 2011 06:35
India has 1.2 billion people and is fast catching up with China as the worlds most populous nation. In an attempt to slow down the baby boom the state of Rajasthan, home to 68 million people, is offering prizes in exchange for sterilisation.
Now women can win anything from food processors to cars in exchange for being sterilised.
This latest effort by state officials has raised controversy as the procedure is still viewed with suspicion after the government introduced a forced sterilisation program the 1970s.
Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports from the western state of Rajasthan.
Source: Al Jazeera
Indian state offers prizes for sterilisation - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
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