Surgeon who performed maximum sterilization seeks law to check population bloom

Dr Lalitmohan Pant, a surgeon from Indore who is said to be performed 3.81 lakh sterilisation procedures in the last four decades, demanded a law in view of the growing population in India on the eve of World Population Day.

Indore: On the eve of World Population Day, noted surgeon Dr Lalitmohan Pant, who has performed 3.81 lakh sterilisation procedures in the last four decades, demanded a law in view of the growing population in India on Wednesday.

Fondly called as 'doorbeen-wale baba' in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, Dr Pant is a laparoscopic sterilisation expert, works with the health department of the state government.

"A law to check population growth is the need of the hour, which should be enacted as soon as possible," said Dr Pant.

Dr Pant said that it was obvious that a law infringing on one's natural right to procreate cannot be implemented in a democratic country like India.

Dr Lalitmohan Pant, surgeon who performed maximum sterilization

"However, a serious thought should be given to enact a law to deny government benefits to those people who have more than two children," Dr Pant said.

Claiming that he has performed 3.81 sterilisation procedures in the last 37 years, the 64-year-old surgeon said that this has stopped approximately 10 lakh births.

"No other surgeon in the world has done so many sterilisations. I conducted the first operation in 1982. Since then I have been conducting surgeries at camps in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi," he said.

According to a report by the United Nations Population Fund, India's population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2 per cent between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual growth rate of China.

World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-governing council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.