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Check upon Indian Population

India Government policies to check population in India

Women are the major targets of family planning programmes in India


India was the first country to launch a national programme in 1951, emphasizing family planning to the extent necessary for reducing birth rates but it did not show any change due to decline in death rates simultaneously. Women were the major targets of family planning programmes.

Survey says that 67 per cent female against 3 per cent male accepted the most widely used method of family planning i.e. sterilization.

The First Five Year Plan called for an explicit population policy and considered family planning as a step towards improvement in health of mothers and children.

Government's policy since 1938

1938 Sub Committee on population was set up by the National Planning Committe appointed by the Interim Government.
1940 The National Planning Committee, in its resolution said, inter alia, that in the interest of social economy, family happiness and national planning, family planning and a limitation of children are essential and the State should adopt a policy to encourage these.
1966 A separate Department of Family Planning was carved out in the Ministry of Health in order to strengthen the population control programme.
1977 A modified National Population Policy was announced which viewed the policy "as an integral part of education, health, maternal and child health etc. and stressed the voluntary nature of the family planning programme".
1983 The Government announced a National Health Policy which adopted the recommendations of the Working Group on Population Policy as the long term demographic goal of the country.
1986 The 1986 version of India's Population Policy views family planning in a broader perspective of child survival, women's status and employment, literacy and antipoverty efforts.
1991 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare decided to impart a "new dynamism' to the programme by devising innovative strategies. This led to the development of an Action Plan for revamping family welfare programmes in india.
1993 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare appointed an expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. M.S. Swaminathan to draw up a Draft Population Policy for consideration by Parliament.





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