The botched event focussed attention on India’s dark history with family planning services. Government-run family planning services require going to neighbouring Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh. “Instead of providing quality sterilisation services in the aftermath of so many deaths, the government [has] responded by discontinuing the services. Since the discontinuation of open camps, sterilisation rates in Chhattisgarh for both men and women have dropped drastically. “We have put the entire burden of family planning on women, but it is equally a men’s issue.

Source: The Hindu February 19, 2017 00:33 UTC