GOVERNMENT PLANS FOR FAMILY PLANNING PROMOTION ::
The government of India is aware of the risks of over population It is therefore making all round efforts to foster food production and encourage and organise industrialisation to meet the growig demand It is also planning to remove illiteracy and educate the masses especially with health and sex education Further to reap harvest of the progressive achievements the government must check the ever rising population The only practical way to this is Family Planning Family planning is to be introduced to students as a special subject in their studies
Review of Family Planning Policy ::
Form 1952 the Government of india has embarked upon the Family planning programme as a national policy Much has been done with much less success then the target aimed at The reasons are :
1.IIIiteracy of the masses mainly in the villages because of their orthodox social religious and traditional customs and misbeliefs
2.Lack of understanding of sex education As a result the call for family planning did not come as a call of conscience from within It was adopted as a result of mass appeal and not as a must from uderstanding
3.Family planning was organised by the government without taking the people in confidence Thus it did not become a crusade of for and by the people of india it must be a grass root approach in ones own language
4.The Himalayan Task: Dimensions of the family planning task are gigantic There are about 100 millions i.e. 10 crores of couples in the reproductive age group in India They are scattered in over 560000 villages 3000 towns and many cities They are spread on a vast area of 1.23 million (12.3 lacs) miles of area with limited means of communication
5.Besides religious and social orthodoxism villagers believe that more the sons better the aid in farming They do not realise that liability is more than the asset Hence till the couple gets a son as against the daughters they continue to propagate to their peril
6.Futher they have psychic fear that family planning may produce impotency cancer etc and cancel their lives All this is baseless
However the government has made the necessary changes in its policy and now family planning stands as a movement of the masses with full government support
The new seventh plan (1985-90) of the government of india aims at reducing the birth rate to
33 per thousand by 1990 The The anual population growth rate which is 2.2% at present is aimed to be reduced by 1.66% The size of family which is around 4.2 children per family is planned to be reduced to 2.3 by 2000
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