According to a report in the Indian Express newspaper that said, Members of a Hindu far-right organization called Arogya Bharati say they are working with expectant couples in the country to produce “customized babies", who they hope, will be taller, fairer and smarter than other babies.

"This is racist .. ban the project" voiced various micro blog posts in social media .

Hitesh Jani, the group’s national convener, told this program a combination of diet, Ayurvedic medicine and other practices has led to 450 of these babies, and they hope to have “thousands” more by 2020.

“The parents may have lower IQ, with a poor educational background, but their baby can be extremely bright. If the proper procedure is followed, babies of dark-skinned parents with lesser height can have fair complexion and grow taller,” Hitesh Jani, added.

Jani explained that the program consists of a “purification of energy channels” and body before a pregnancy, and mantra-chanting and “proper food,” such as meals rich in calcium and vitamin A, after the baby is born.

When asked this group as the “health wing” of the conservative Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, but Ramesh Gautam, Arogya Bharati’s national general secretary, said the group was merely “inspired” by the conservative ideology of the RSS rather than being officially supported by it.

Arogya Bharati says it is a “voluntary organization of service minded people who have an interest in the health of society.”

However on Saturday, the chairwoman for a state child rights commission tried to attend one of the workshops where couples are counselled on how to produce these “genius” babies but was barred by the organisers.

"Infuriated by the developments it cannot continue”, Ananya Chatterjee, the chair of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said.

However the right wing group countered that her charges were “politically motivated.”

Responding to a petition from the commission, the West Bengal state high court later mandated that organizers present an affidavit and video of the proceedings.

However having received the notice the organisers fled and the program which went off as scheduled.

Insiders of right wing group said the "customised babies" program launched over a decade ago and has spread to several Indian states. Organizers said it was inspired by a RSS leader who met a woman in Germany more than 40 years ago.

An official said the woman led a post World War II re-population effort in Germany for “signature children” based on the same principles, according to the Indian Express report.

This comment and its evocation of the legacy of Third Reich era eugenics prompted immediate backlash on social media.

The RSS was founded in 1925 as a volunteer organization to advance the rights of Hindus. A few of its founders praised in essays and books the totalitarian movements of Nazism and fascism sweeping Europe at the time, scholars have noted.