Family planning in Bhopal gets a Nano boost

Bhopal: Dec 05, 2010

Health workers in Bhopal can now look forward to various prizes for enrolling men in the government's vasectomy programme, including a shiny new Tata Nano car. The winner will be selected amongst the supervisors, anganwadi workers and sahayaks who work as motivators in the government's family planning programme. Bhopal has a target of 24,000 vasectomy for 2010-11, and so far, only 8,000 men have undergone the procedure. In a meeting with health department officials, city collector Nikunj Srivastava urged them to encourage people to go for vasectomy as it is a reliable and safe method.

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