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The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
The family planning programme suffered during the period of National Emergency. Give reasons.
Reasons for the setback of the Family planning programme during Emergency:
(i) Introduction of a coercive programme of mass sterilization.
(ii) A vast number of mostly poor and powerless people were forcibly sterilized. Sterilization refers to medical procedures like a vasectomy for men and tubectomy for women which prevent conception and childbirth.
(iii) There was massive pressure on lower level government officials( school teachers or office workers) to bring people for sterilization in the family planning camps; that were organized specially for this purpose.
(iv) However, There was widespread popular opposition to the programme. Ultimately, this programme was abandoned by the new government elected after the Emergency.
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What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
Why is distinction made between formal and social demography?
What problems have in India because of over-population?
Who was Thomas Robert Malthus and why is he famous?
What does Malthus write in an essay on the principle of population, 1798 CE?
What are the chief characteristics of Malthusian theory of population growth?
How were Malthus's predictions proved false by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century in Europe?
How was Malthus's theory met to rebuttal by liberal and Marxist scholars?
What is the theory of Demographic Transition?
What are the three basic phases of population growth as per the theory of Demographic Transition?
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