India’s Population Slowdown
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How has India’s family planning program evolved?
- India’s family planning program started in 1951- making it one of the oldest in the world.
- The earliest efforts involved the government undertaking communication campaigns to promote smaller family sizes. This saw only limited progress and the Indian population grew rapidly.
- The population control measures took a dark turn when the government declared the Emergency in 1975. The government implemented a mandatory sterilization program which involved thousands of vasectomies. Many of these were forcibly performed on the people.
- This forced sterilization became a major electio
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