Population control in India Policy-administration-spread

This book has come out of a report prepared in 1975 at the request of the Asian Centre for Development Administration, Kuala Lumpur, when the Centre was making a comparative study of the family planning programme in South-East Asia with particular reference to its administrative aspects. The ACDA had given a uniform frame of reference for all the reporting countries to facilitate international comparison when necessary.
Considerable revision has since been made in the original text to include the later developments in the family planning programme in India, figures have been brought up-to-date and a whole chapter has been added on the 'spread' of the programme in the country. The present book, in short, traces the history of India's population control policy over the last 30 years and analyses the achievements. The administrative structure of the programme has been described in detail. The management methods, the personnel training and the population control research programme have also been dealt with.
The book is based mainly on documentary evidence. Discussions, however, were held with officials of the Family Planning (now Family Welfare) Department both at the Centre and in the States. Some of the research institutions were visited and the staff in these institutions were interviewed.