Put the following statements in correct sequence:
A. Vast numbers of poor and powerless people were forcibly sterilised.
B. The National Family Planning Program was renamed as National Family Welfare Program
C. The Population Policy took the concrete form of National Family Planning Program
D. The Government of India came up with National Health Policy which incorporated the socio-demographic goals.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → C, A, B, D
C. The Population Policy took the concrete form of National Family Planning Program — India announced its population policy in 1952, and the policy took the concrete form of the National Family Planning Programme.
A. Vast numbers of poor and powerless people were forcibly sterilised. — this happened during the National Emergency (1975–76), when the government introduced a coercive programme of mass sterilisation.
B. The National Family Planning Program was renamed as National Family Welfare Program — the renaming came after the Emergency, when coercive methods were no longer used.
D. The Government of India came up with National Health Policy which incorporated the socio-demographic goals. — this came in 2017, after the National Population Policy of 2000.
NCERT (2025-26): “2.7 Population Policy in India … It is hardly surprising therefore that India has had an official population policy for more than a half century. In fact, India was perhaps the first country to explicitly announce such a policy in 1952. The population policy took the concrete form of the National Family Planning Programme. The broad objectives of this programme have remained the same – to try to influence the rate and pattern of population growth in socially desirable…” “2.7 Population Policy in India … The Family Planning Programme suffered a setback during the years of the National Emergency (1975 – 76). Normal parliamentary and legal procedures were suspended during this time and special laws and ordinances issued directly by the government (without being passed by Parliament) were in force. During this time the government tried to intensify the effort to bring down the growth rate of population by introducing a coercive programme of mass sterilisation. Here sterilisation refers to medical procedures like vasectomy (for men) and tubectomy (for women) which prevent conception and childbirth. Vast numbers of mostly poor and powerless people were forcibly sterilised and there was massive pressure on lower level government officials (like school teachers or office workers) to bring people for sterilisation in the camps that were organised for this purpose. There was widespread popular opposition to this programme, and the new government elected after the Emergency abandoned it.…” “2.7 Population Policy in India … The National Family Planning Programme was renamed as the National Family Welfare Programme after the Emergency, and coercive methods were no longer used. The programme now has a broad-based set of socio-demographic objectives. A new set of guidelines were formulated as part of the National Population Policy of the year 2000. In 2017, Government of India came out with National Health Policy 2017 in which most of these socio–demographic goals were incorporated with new targets (Box 2.5). Read these policy goals and discuss their implications in the class.…” |