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We've constituted a committee to inquire into the incident. We will take strict action against those found guilty. At the moment though, we are concentrating on giving proper medical care to the women," Chhattisgarh Health Minister Amar Agrawal saidchina virtual office.

This is not the first time that sterilisation surgeries have been botched in India.

In January 2012, three men were arrested in Bihar for operating on 53 women in two hours. The men had carried out operations in a field and without the use of anaesthesia.

There have also been allegations that women from poor families are often paid to be sterilised.

Many in the Indian government are worried about the size of the country's population - it is expected to overtake that of China by 2030 Sim.

Authorities have been promoting family planning for several decades now, trying to convince people to have smaller families.

Sterilisation camps are sometimes organised to carry out mass vasectomy or tubectomy and authorities in several states have also offered incentives for couples volunteering for sterilisation.

A nationwide campaign was abandoned in the 1970s, however, after complaints that thousands of men and women were forced intohair loss treatment