Population Control
Building on India’s Family Planning Success
India was the first country in the world to adopt an official population policy and launch an official family planning programme way back in 1952. Since then, planned efforts have been the mainstay of population stabilisation programme in the country under various names. Initially, these efforts were organised under the National Family Planning Programme which was renamed in 1977 as the National Family Welfare Programme.
- Social reformer Raghunath Dhondo Karve was well ahead of his time when he pioneered family planning in Mumbai in the 1920s. Independent India’s first government caught up ....
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