While government officials said the amendment passed on May 26 was a “step forward”, activists denounced the amendment. They said the amendment continued the inhuman practice of not giving the tribes “autonomy over their own bodies”. The tribals could not decide on their own to go for sterilisation. The women of these families, most of them settled in the forests of the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, had borne several children and were suffering from health problems. They also had close to nothing to feed their children, but were turned away.

Source: Indian Express June 04, 2017 20:26 UTC