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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning: a major public health programme in India.

AUTHORS

Datta S

SOURCE

Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene 31: 7-21. January-

February 1968.

ABSTRACT

India's increase of 12 million people each year nullifies almost all the considerable progress the country made in

agriculture and industrial production during 19 years of her freedom. Today she ranks 2nd in population and 7th in

land area of the world. She claims 15% of the world's population, on about 2.4% of the world's land area. The

Government of India has taken family planning as a major national health program under her Five-Year Plans, but

impact of this program is not felt as yet. Since this is a difficult complex problem with many facets, it has to be

attacked forcefully, drastically, and on all fronts. An all-out war has to be waged against the population growth. India

should attack it with all the weapons she had: education, propaganda, taxation, legalization of abortion, and even

compulsory sterilization. Overnight change in the fertility pattern of the people is impossible.(AUTHOR'S, MODIFIED)

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1048-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning: a major public health programme in

India.", is(are) Datta S. The source of this article is "Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene 31:

7-21. January-February 1968.". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT9T 1048-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41048

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