Lok Sabha Question No. 64 (STARRED), answered on 2021-07-23
Subject: Population Growth
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Ravindra Kushawaha, Manoj Kumar Tiwari

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.64 TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 23 RD JULY , 2021

## POPULATION GROWTH

## *64.   SHRI RAVINDRA KUSHWAHA:

## SHRI MANOJ TIWARI:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the current status and rate of population growth in the country;
- (b) whether India is likely to be the most populous country across the world by 2027, according to the projections of United Nations;
- (c) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  reaction  of  the  Gover thereto;
- (d) the  major  recommendations  of  the  M.S.Swaminathan  Committee  on Population control and the action taken/being taken by the Government thereon; and
- ( e) the  other  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  contr population growth in the country along with the achievements made thereon?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE ( SHRI MANSUKH MANDAVIYA)

- (a) to (e ): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 64 FOR 2 3 RD JULY, 2021

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- (a) As per Registrar General of India the country's decadal growth rate was 17.64% in Census 2011.
- (b) & (c): As  per  the  report  titled  'World Population  Prospects,  2019'  by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, India's population is  projected  to  be  146.9  crore  by  2027.  The  Government  of  India implementing the Family Planning program which follows the tenets laid do under National  Population  Policy  2000  and  National  Health  Policy  2017  f addressing  the  unmet  need  for  Family  Planning  and  checking  populatio growth.

(d) & (e): The M.S Swaminathan committee made some major recommendations for  formulating  the  National Population  policy  (NPP  2000)  which  are  as follows:

- Achieving a Total Fertility Rate of 2.1 by 2010;
- Ensuring a target free approach on contraceptive use.
- Replacing  the  present  vertically  structured  family  welfare  program with decentralized and democra tic planning.
- Involving all agencies in population control measures.

In  line  with  the  above  recommendations,  the  National  Family  Plannin program,  reaffirms  the  Government's  commitment  towards  voluntary  and informed choice, target free approach and achieve ment of replacement level of fertility  by  simultaneously  addressing  the  issues  of  child  survival,  m health and contraception.

The details of the schemes and programmes being implemented by the Government to control population growth are placed at Annexure.

## Annexure

Schemes and programmes operated by the government to control the growth rate of population, the prominent among which are:

- Mission Parivar Vikas: has been launched to increase access to contraceptives  and  Family  Planning  services in  146  high  fertility  districts spread across seven high focus states.
- Enhanced  Compensation  Scheme  for  Sterilization: Compensation  for sterilization  has  been  enhanced  in  11  high  focus  states  (8  Empowered Action Group (EAG) states and Assam, Gujarat and Haryana)
- Introduction of New Contraceptive Choices: The current basket of choice has  been  expanded  to  include  the  new  contraceptives viz. Injectable contraceptive (Antara) and Centchroman (Chhaya).
- Quality  Assurance  Committees have  been  established  in  all states  and districts for ensuring quality Family Planning services.
- A National Family Planning Indemnity Scheme, under which the clients are  indemnified  in  the  unlikely  event  of  death,  complication  and  fa following sterilization and the providers/ acc r dited institutions are indemnified against litigations in those eventualities.
- A Scheme for drop back services to sterilization clients has been initiated.
- A  Scheme  for  Home  delivery  of  contraceptives  by  ASHAs to  provide contraceptives at the doorstep of beneficiaries is in operation.
- A Scheme to ensure spacing of births by ASHAs is in place.
- Family  Planning  logistics  management  information  system has  been developed to track Family Planning commodities from the national level to the communities.
- Redesigned  Contraceptive  Packaging: The  packaging  for  Condoms,  Oral Contraceptive  Pills  (OCPs) and  Emergency  Contraceptive  Pills  (ECPs) has now been improved and redesigned to increase its usage.
- Family Planning Media Campaign has been launched to generate demand for contraceptives.
- World Population Day & fortnight is being observed in July every year to boost Family Planning efforts all over the country.
- Post-partum Family Planning is being focused upon with special emphasis on Post-partum IUCD services.
- Vasectomy  Fortnight  is  being  observed  in  November every  year  to promote male participation in Family Planning.
- Post Abortion Family Planning Services have been initiated
- Private/ NGO facilities are being accredited to increase the provider base for family planning services under PPP.

## As  a  result  of  the  above  initiatives  the  following  successes  have  been achieved:

- The Total Fertility Rate has declined from 2.7 to 2.2 from 2005-06(NFHS III) to 2015-16 (NFHS IV)
- The Crude Birth Rate has declined from 23.8 in 2005 to 20.0 in 2018 (SRS)
- The Decadal growth rate has declined from 21.54% in 1990-2000 to 17.64% during 2001-11.
- The Crude Death Rate has declined from 7.6 in 2005 to 6.2 in 2018 (SRS)
- 28  out  of  36  States/UTs have  already  achieved  the  replacement  level fertility of 2.1 or less .
- India's Wanted Fertility Rate was 1.9 in NFHS III and has further come down to 1.8 in NFHS IV.
- The teenage birth rate has halved from 16% (NFHS III) to 8% (NFHS IV)
- The teenage marriage has halved from 47.4% (NFHS III) to 26.8% (NFHS IV)