Tubectomy is catching up with women of all faiths and sections of society. Muslim women are also coming forward to limit their families in terms of the population.
Women of primitive vulnerable tribal groups are also presenting themselves for tubectomy who are advised to go home without any tubectomy as the government of India has put an embargo on any family planning device on male and female of the primitive vulnerable tribal groups in the country.
The ban is strict and no surgeon can violate it as it will invite cancellation of registration for the said surgeon.
Medical officer in charge of the Chainpur community health centre Dr Chaman Kumar Bhardwaj said "We neither do vasectomy of male nor tubectomy of female of the primitive vulnerable tribal groups simply because it is banned from the government."
Dr Bhardwaj said "We believe this ban on the family planning of these primitive vulnerable tribal groups is all for its dwindling population already and any further family planning measures to them will further peter out their population."
He said our team verify the name of the women and find out if she is from any of the banned one of the primitive vulnerable tribal groups Korwa, Parhaiyya or Asur etc and once detected to be of the PVTGs there is a polite no to tubectomy or vasectomy.
Men and women of these primitive vulnerable tribal groups who turn up here are otherwise examined and treated for any other issues related to health, added the medical officer in charge of the Chainpur community health centre.
Sources said the women of the primitive vulnerable tribal groups do know that tubectomy can make them rich by 2000 plus money as government doles out this 2000 plus rupees as incentive but since it is no tubectomy of woman and no vasectomy of male of this group that there is left no scope of this incentive money to reach them.
Chainpur community health centre offers smart tubectomy just because it is a well managed government community health centre. The additional chief secretary health Arun Kr Singh on his inspection about the centre a few months ago had told mediapersons that this Chainpur community health centre is 'well managed'.
Like all other community health centres the turn up for vasectomy is the poorest here too where on an average it is just 1 or 2 vasectomies of the males in a few hundreds where tubectomy of the female runs into 700 plus in 'family planning operations season Winter'.
Dr Bhardwaj said we have 3 days in a week for family planning operations Monday, Tuesday and Friday and in Winter season all these three days see a good rush of eligible women while men keep at bay from no scalpel vasectomy.
It is the women only who are burdened with the operation of the family planning while their men have none of the responsibility.
In medical parlance it is called NSV for male and it is extremely miserable in Palamu where its percentage is around only 7. End