India population policies

Sara Downie

• Concern

• Long history-population policy

• 1950´s • Earliest• Government-sponsored • 1.3%

• Hospitals

• Information • Nonaggressive

• Limitation

Size

• 1960´s• High population =

economic development

• 4.1% 2.5% mid-1970s

• The National Population Policy- 1976

• Five-Year

• Government-enforced sterilization

• 1980s • Implemented

• State

• Central

• 1991, 150,000 +

• public

• offered

• 4

• Five-Year Plan

• All

• Post-partum

level

• reorganization

tubal ligature operations

URBAN

• Renovation/remodelling of intrauterine device

• 1991 census

• 1981-1991 2%.

Jamkhed, Karnataka

Sterilization Camps

• Female infanticide

• High

• 2060

Sources

• http://india_resource.tripod.com/population.html

• http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/database/poplaws/law_india/india1.htm

• http://www.country-studies.com/india/population-and-family-planning-policy.html

• http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/country.php