Family welfare programme was implemented by Govt. of India as a voluntary programme. It is a policy of growth covering human health, family welfare children and women’s right.

Objectives:

1.Slow down the population explosion by reducing fertility.

2.Pressure on the environment, due to over exploitation of natural resources is reduces.

Family planning Programme

If provides educational and clinical services that help couple to choose how many children to have and when to have them. Family planning programme provides information on birth spacing birth control and health care for pregnant woman and infants. It also reduced the number of legal and illegal abortions per year and decreased the risk of death from pregnancies.

Objectives:

1.Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 / 1000 infants

2.Achieve 100% registration of births, deaths marriage and pregnancies.

3.Encourages late marriages and late child bearing.

4.Encourages breast feeding.

5.Enables to improve woman’s health education, employment.

6.Constrain the spnead & Aids / HIV.

7.Prevent and control of communical diseases.

Fertility control methods:

1.Traditional methods: It includes taboos and folks medicine.

2.Modern methods: It includes birth control techniques like mechanical barriers, surgical methods, chemical pills and physical barriers to implantation. More than 100 contraceptive methods are on trial.

Family planning programme in India:

1.In 1952 India started family planning programme.

2.In 1970 Indian govt. forced FP campain all the over country.

3.In 1978 govt. legally raized the minimum age of marriage for men from 18 to 21 and for women 15 to 18 years.

4.In 1981 census report showed there is no drop in population. Hence funding for FP programme has been increased.