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They asked women to have tubectomies and men to have vasectomies, offering incentives like sacks of flour for wives and exemptions from army reserve training for husbands.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015

State governments regularly organise mass sterilisation camps where doctors perform serial tubectomies on dozens of women from poor families.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2014

Paying people a cash incentive for sterilisation is against the law in many countries, but in India, state governments continue to legally pay some to undergo vasectomies and tubectomies.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2014

The government is pushing birth control programs: 6 million people underwent vasectomies or tubectomies in six months last year.

From Time Magazine Archive