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Clarify how the family planning programmes have taken a political ‘U’-turn in present India.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • Population Dynamics

India's family planning programme began in 1952 as a mission to suppress births. By 2024–26 elected leaders in several states were publicly urging citizens to have more. That reversal is the U-turn — but its sociological meaning lies less in the change of direction than in the change of the object of policy.

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  • From control to correction
  • The reversal now under way
  • What the U-turn actually shifts
  • Conclusion

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