The Lineaments of Population Policy in India Women and Family Planning

India is the first country in the world to have an official programme for family planning that commenced in 1952. It has also seen a strong women’s movement to assert reproductive and contraceptive rights. This book brings to the fore several contestations and negotiations between public policy and the women’s movement in India. The comprehensive volume puts together key documents from archival records and authoritative sources, and traces the contours that have marked and defined the population policy in India as well as rights issues for women. A major intervention in the field, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers in public policy, public health, demography, gender studies, social policy, development studies, sociology, social justice, human rights, politics and those interested in the study of modern India.

General Introduction Vina Mazumdar Introduction Mohan Rao Part I: The Ideas of Malthus 1. India Famine Commission, 1880 2. Census of India, 1891 — Chapter III: The Movement of The Population, 1893 3. Census of India (1911) — Chapter II: Movement of The Population, 1912 4. Census of India, 1931 — Section IV: Population Problem, 1933 5. Sub-Committee on Women’s Role in Planned Economy, 1939 6. Report of Health Survey and Development Committee, 1946 7. National Planning Committee Series: Population, 1947 8. Extracts from National Planning Committee Report of Sub-Committee on Public Health, 1948 Part II: The Population Bomb Years 9. First Five Year Plan: Chapter on Health, 1951 10. Report of The Health Survey and Planning Committee, 1961 11. Third Five Year Plan, 1961 12. Report of The Committee to Study The Question of Legalisation of Abortion, 1966 13. Central Family Planning Council Mukherjee Committee Report on IUCD, 1966 14. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 15. Report of The Committee of Multipurpose Workers Under Health & Family Planning Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Planning, 1973 16. Extracts from Towards Equality Report of The Committee on The Status of Women in India, 1974 17. National Population Policy- Statement by Dr. Karan Singh, 1976 Part III: Women as Votaries 18. Shah Commission of Inquiry, 1978 19. Report of The Working Group on Population Policy, 1978 20. ICSSR & ICMR Health for All: An Alternative Strategy, 1980 21. Statement on National Health Policy, 1982 22. Maharashtra Act No. XV of 1988 23. Task Force on Hormonal Contraception Part IV: Paradigm Shift? 24. Draft ofNational Population Policy, 1994 25. The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 26. Andhra Pradesh State Population Policy: A Statement and a Strategy, 1997 27. Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Subjects, 2000 28. National Population Policy, 2000 29. National Health Policy, 2002 30. National Human Rights Commission: Declaration, 2003 31. Panchayati Raj and the ‘Two-Child Norm’: Implications and Consequences, 2003 32. JNU Statement: Looking Back at Cairo, 2004 33. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation Bill, 2008) 34. Draft ofThe Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill - 2010

Mohan Rao is Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. A medical doctor specialised in public health, he has written extensively on the history and politics of health and population. He has also been closely associated with the women’s movements and health movements in the country. He is the author of From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic (2004), has edited Disinvesting in Health: The World Bank’s Prescriptions (1999) and The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women’s Lives in India (2004) and co-edited Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times (with Sarah Sextor, 2010) and Public Health and Private Wealth: Stem Cells, Surrogates and Other Strategic Bodies (with Sarah Hodges, 2016).