Family Planning

With reference to the article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Sunday-TOI/Special-Report/How-Indias-family-planners-lost-the-plot/articleshow/4794280.cms

It’s neither unexpected nor exaggerated. India will take over China's population by 2045, claims the latest report from the UN.

Surprising is the fact that our policy makers and freedom struggle idols considered ‘population growth’ as a boon.
Now, the population, earlier being considered as a boon is one of the major facts responsible for the fact that in a technologically advanced India, one fourth of the population still survives for less than a dollar a day!

India witnessed a rapid increase in birth rates with no effective family planning awareness or measures being adopted. This trend was more wide spread in the rural India which accounts for 70 per cent of the country’s population.

No denial of the fact that India’s population control measures have been huge failures, either due to lack of implementation of awareness.

However, now is the time to realize and make others aware of the fact that the growing population is one major factor directly responsible for the poverty and unemployment cycle.

The initial measures introduced included forced sterilization however, there is an urgent need to impart knowledge and create awareness about the safe techniques. Education and awareness for all is an essential factor which could decide the fate of these family planning measures.