Family Planning Program

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India became the pioneer nation in the world to launch a nationwide family planning program in the year 1952, with an intention to reduce fertility and thereby stabilizing the population growth in the near future, even though India is the second most populous country in the world. Since independence several social scientists, demographers, policy makers and researchers are trying hard via optimistic tone of the national policies to control India’s rapidly increasing population. Though history of family planning holds the evidences of the approach behind it being controversial, but significant achievements have been noticed in the recent decades in this regard. The family planning programme initiated with a very cautious approach in India, during…show more content…
The Family Welfare Programme has relaxed its compulsive approaches in the modification of family planning at various nodes so as to make program more educational and wholly voluntary. The basic strategies adopted with the view to make it a ‘people’s programme’. Desired family size and timing of births are two basic objectives that are fulfilled by the family planning through contraception. Although the family planning programme was not as successful as was expected, it has succeeded in generating universal knowledge of family planning methods among the masses (IIPS and ORC MACRO, 2000). But, even with this high awareness of contraception, there exists a wide GAP between the knowledge and practice of these methods (Kulkarni, 2003) due to the existing variations in the socioeconomic and geographical characteristics within its…show more content…
The most populous state of India that’s Uttar Pradesh is the focused state of this study for several reasons. It is the most populated state of India with approximately 16.4% (more than 19 billion population as of 2011 census) of the total population. Among the high fertility states Uttar Pradesh with the total fertility rate (TFR) 3.82 is the one that has shown a near stall in fertility decline in the past period. The low contraceptive prevalence rate (47.4) and high level of fertility in Uttar Pradesh are of considerable concern to the Indian Government (NFHS-III (2005-2006)). This study attempts to explore the reasons for these KAP GAP and the factors affecting the outcome of family planning program and to have a better understanding of the situation in order to help the government in formulation of policies and modify its approach in Uttar
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