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Men queue up to sterilise ... for guns
Guns go well with male sterilisation - so found out authorities in a remote district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
- IANS
- Published: 00:01 April 2, 2008
Bhopal: Guns go well with male sterilisation - so found out authorities in a remote district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Shivpuri district had, until recently, negligible number of men undergoing vasectomy operations at government-run family planning camps.
But things changed when District Collector Manish Shrivastava thought of issuing gun licences at the camps in the dacoit-fested region of the state.
Earlier, men thought getting sterilised went against their macho image. Men, therefore, used to send their wives for a sterilisation operation instead.
"Since people in this dacoit-infested district also have a penchant for guns, I thought of providing them a bigger symbol of masculinity [a gun] and told them to come forward for vasectomy," he said.
In the last camp 37 people underwent vasectomy. Last year, there were only eight cases.
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