According to the recently released National Family Health Survey -5, India’s Total Fertility Rate, which is the number of children a woman would have in the course of her life, is 2, a decrease from 2.2 in NFHS-4. Poonam Muttreja and S. Irudaya Rajan discuss whether governments should stop focusing on population control, in a conversation moderated by Serena Josephine …
Sekher heads the Departmentof Population Policies and Programmes at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. We have almost reached replacement level fertility in most parts of India except in a few bigger States like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. However, the total wanted fertility rate in India was 1.8 children per woman in 2015-16. In fact, the Government of India …
Many of us working in the field of public health and social development have been taken aback, if not downright shocked, by the recently announced draft Uttar Pradesh Population Bill, 2021 that focuses exclusively on making a two-child norm a law, specifying various incentives and penalties for contravention. Signs of stabilisation Consider the rationale below with the facts as they …
The Uttar Pradesh government will announce a new population policy for 2021-2030 on Sunday, which is observed as World Population Day. Therefore, there is a need for community-centric awareness efforts.” WATCH: Exclusive: Yogi Adityanath on BJP winning UP Zila Panchayat chairperson polls The chief minister said that along with awareness and better health facilities, all necessary efforts should be made …
