By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Dr Ilias Ali of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has been honoured with Samajseva Padmashri Samman 2013 by a social trust in Pune for his immense contribution in controlling population growth in Assam and other areas.
Malatidevi Manav Vikas Samajik Trust, a Pune based organization recently handed over the award to Dr Ali who has been the state Nodal Officer of No Scalpel Vasectomy (NSV) since 2009 in Assam.
Dr Ilias Ali
“It feels good to be honoured or to get your work recognized. It means more responsibility on my shoulder. I hope such recognitions will encourage me to work more towards controlling the population growth,” said Dr Ali after getting the honour.
The trust office bearers said that they felt honoured to give the honour to Dr Ali for his efforts to bring the message of birth control measures in the overall development of the society. Dr Ali who is the professor of surgery cum HOD of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Centre of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Assam’s premiere medicine institute is known for his efforts to bring the people of rural areas towards adopting the population control measures.
“It was very difficult initially to go deep inside the people as there is a notion that such measures of birth control are anti-Islamic. The village people or even the religious heads were the hurdles but I used the quotes from the Holy Quran to make them understand the reality and how this earth can be protected,” said Ali.
Dr Ilias Ali who has applied the birth control measures on more than 40 thousand people so far in the state was also invited by a Florida based international organisation for his service in population control in several African countries. Ali was a part of No- Scalpel Vasectomy International’s (NSVI) mission in African countries to check population last year.
Besides, he was invited to New Delhi on the occasion of World Population day on various platforms to sensitize on the measures of population control number of times. He was also lauded by Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi a few weeks ago for his efforts to reduce the birth rate in the state.