According to
the 2001 census, the total population of India was 1,027,015,247, making India
the second -most populated country in the world. It is expected that by 2025,
India will become the most populated nation in the world, surpassing China. As
a result, India faces an intense socio-economic and natural resource crisis.
India is rich with resources but has a number of poor people and the population
growth is adversely affecting the growth and development of the country and its
people. Therefore, it is essential to keep a check on population growth in
India. The need for population control is necessary because that will enable
the people of India to have a better standard of living and economic growth. The
Government of India has been making determined efforts through a series of
planned programmes to control the population in India. The Planning Commission
of India took a two -pronged approach.
·
Department of Family Welfare under the Ministry of Health was
created at the Centre with counterparts in States for the task of educating
Indian couples to adopt family welfare methods. Demographic and Action Research
Centres were given financial assistance to carry on research on promotion of
family planning practices.
·
The working group on Vital and Health Statistics of the Planning Commission
in its first meeting in March 1958 examined the question of obtaining reliable
estimates of the natural rate of population growth since the rate, as obtained
from the use of census data by actuaries, was considered to be less reliable.
It recommended that the National Sample Survey obtain a reliable estimate of
population increase rate in future years.
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