India reports remarkable decline in total fertility rate, finds NFHS-5
Of the 17 states analysed in the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), all states except Bihar, Manipur and Meghalaya have a TFR of 2.1 or less, which implies that most states have attained replacement level fertility. December 22, 2020 10:14:21 pm
This is a remarkable development, Director of International Institute for Population Sciences, Dr KS James, said on Tuesday. (Representational)
India’s population is said to be stabilising as the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has decreased across the majority of the country’s states. Of the 17 states analysed in the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), all states except Bihar, Manipur and Meghalaya have a TFR of 2.1 or less, which implies that most states have attained replacement level fertility. This is a remarkable development, Director of International Institute for Population Scienc
Does India really need a two-child law?
Experts believe coercive family planning could have unintended impacts like selective and unsafe abortions and a further skew in the country’s sex ratio. AFP
With fertility rates falling across states, India does not need a law enforcing a two-child norm as sought by a petitioner recently in the Supreme Court, experts told
IndiaSpend. Such a law could instead have unintended impacts – sex-selective and unsafe abortions and a further skew in India’s sex ratio.
Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, a Bharatiya Janata Party politician and lawyer, had asked for a law that would deny access to government jobs, subsidies, and certain rights to those with more than two children. The denied rights, as per the petition, would include the right to vote, to property and to free shelter.
With fertility rates falling across states, India does not need a law enforcing a two-child norm as sought by a petitioner recently in the Supreme Court (SC), experts told IndiaSpend. Such a law could instead have unintended impacts sex-selective and unsafe abortions and a further skew in India s sex ratio. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and lawyer, had asked for a law that would deny access to government jobs, subsidies, and certain rights to those with more than two children. The denied rights, as per the petition, would include the right to vote, to property and to free shelter.
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In most states, at least every fourth woman is anaemic, the survey showed. (Image for representation only)
Latest data from the 5th National Family Health Survey show that even today, nearly every second woman in Bihar and every third in Andhra Pradesh is illiterate.
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Women empowerment has been a key theme of successive governments and in the first term of the Narendra Modi government, the slogan ‘beti padhao, beti bachao’ (teach daughters, save daughters) reached a crescendo as the prime minister underlined the initiatives to discourage female foeticide and empower women.
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Biharis consume more alcohol than people in Goa, Maharashtra, according to a govt survey
National Family Health Survey 2019-20 shows more Biharis consume alcohol than people in Maharashtra and Goa.
While alcohol consumption is more in the southern state of Telangana, a much higher percentage of men consume alcohol in Bihar
Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir are the states where alcohol consumption is low among men.
NEW DELHI: It is a popular perception that alcohol consumption is much higher in the western states of Goa and Maharashtra, but a new government survey has shown just the opposite of that. According to the National Family Health Survey 2019-20, more men in dry state of Bihar consume alcohol than people in Maharashtra and Goa.