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Discuss the salient features of the population policy of Government of India. What modifications would you suggest to make it more effective?

  • UPSC 2006
  • Population Dynamics

India was the first country in the world to adopt a state-sponsored family planning programme, in 1952. Its population policy has since passed through clinic, extension, target, coercive and rights-based phases. Describing it is the easier half of the question; the harder half is saying what must change for it to work.

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