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Objective: to study the changing trends in female sterilization, its importance in population control, to analyse the effect of different parameters on acceptance of sterilization, to study the complications in sterilization procedure. Study Design: Prospective observational study at a tertiary care hospital. Results: In the present study total number of 1600 sterilization studied for different parameters. In this series, majority of cases were in between the age group of 21 to 30 years (88 %), commonest indication (87.37 %) was socioeconomic, with 73.18 % urban acceptance, parity of 3 was largest group of cases (46.87 %),majority (54.87 %) of cases were sterilized in puerperium, Majority of only sterilization procedures (54.87 %) were done under local anaesthesia procedure, most cases (99.68 %) were done by abdominal route, early postoperative complications were seen in 7.76 %. Conclusion: Though female sterilization is a very safe, simple and efficacious procedure. constant effort has to be made for promotion of accepting this procedure which has potential ease and successful reversibility if the couple desires for it.