Campaign to honour test-tube baby pioneer

KOLKATA: A campaign was launched on Saturday to ensure India’s test-tube baby pioneer

Subhash Mukhopadhyay

receives befitting posthumous honours. State heritage commission chairman

Suvaprasanna

said a street may be named after

Mukhopadhay

and his bust installed at a prominent space. Suvaprasanna will urge Mamata Banerjee to christen a medical college after him.

“We have been able to send our message to the government,” said Gautam Khastgir, chairperson, Birth Inspire Foundation, which organized the event.

Prabhat Agarwal

, father of test-tube baby Durga who was born on October 3, 1978, as a result of Mukhopadhyay’s treatment, gynaecologist

Pronob Dasgupta

and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Ananya Chakraborty attended the event on Saturday.