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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Target-crazy babus sterilize MP tribals by Suchandana Gupta

Target-crazy babus sterilize MP tribals by Suchandana Gupta

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published Published on Feb 18, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2012

After Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared 2012 as the year of family planning, some district collectors seem to have tossed the rule book to the winds to meet their targets.

Such has been the zeal among the officials to bring more and more people under the scalpel that they are luring and misguiding protected tribals with dwindling population into sterilization. From aanganwadi workers to tehsildars and village 'patwaris', everyone is out to lure tribals with monetary gain of Rs 1,100 as an incentive. The Vanwasi Kalyan Parishad on Friday threatened a state-wide protest if the government did not stop this programme and act against officials responsible for this outrage.

For instance, Betul in southern MP has 10 development blocks of which six are tribal dominated. Two of these tribes, Gonds and Korkus, are designated 'primitive', whose numbers have dwindled by 11% over the last decade. Alarmed with this drive, DP Uike, president of Vanwasi Kalyan Parishad, told TOI, "The numbers of both Gond and Korku tribes have gone down because of high rate of infant mortality. Most infants die before the age of five. These tribes are also affected by lack of medical facilities. Then why this family planning? Ninety percent of sterilisation in this district has been done on tribals."

At this rate, the primitive tribes of Gonds and Korkus would soon become extinct, Uike said. Repeated attempts to get a comment from district collector Chandrasekhar Borkar over the phone did not elicit a response.

The Times of India, 18 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Target-crazy-babus-sterilize-MP-tribals/articleshow/11934087.cms


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