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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Inaugural address (on family planning)

AUTHORS

Gandhi I

SOURCE

In: Family Planning Association of India (FPAI). Sixth All India Conference on

Family Planning. Report of the proceedings, Chandigarh, November 30-December

5, 1968. Bombay, FPAI, (1968). p. 14-16

ABSTRACT

India's Prime Minister emphasized the need for individual participation in the family planning program, stating that all

official program machinery, whether state of national, was meant to persuade and assist individuals in family

planning practice. The program is for family planning and not population control and it should be proved to every

villager that a smaller, more compact family makes for better health and greater happiness. Success, however, has

been confined to the more afluent sectors of the population, which was not a totally unexpected result. Offical and

voluntary agencies should strengthen their efforts to reach those in greatest need as, in contrast to the development

situation in the Western world during the Demographic Transition, India has not reached the level of literacy and

economic development than characteristic of the West and therefore must motivate its population to adopt family

planning before it naturally would. The lassitude of the populous was identified as the biggest enemy of family

planning. Workers were exhorted to better training, better distribution of services, better biological research and more

effective dispersal of information. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1089-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Inaugural address (on family planning)", is(are) Gandhi I.

The source of this article is "In: Family Planning Association of India (FPAI). Sixth All India Conference on Family

Planning. Report of the proceedings, Chandigarh, November 30-December 5, 1968. Bombay, FPAI, (1968). p. 14-16".

This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1089-06. All

rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41089

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