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In population planning, the thrust of the Government has been ‘planning the population’ not ‘plan for the population’. Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Cultural Setting

Planning the population acts on the numbers — birth-rate targets, contraceptive supply, sterilisation camps, incentives and disincentives. Its unit is the couple; its measure is averted births.

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