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edia coverage of the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) results from 2019 have broadly focused on the under-performance in nutrition, at the cost of examining disaggregated trends in child mortality. This article tries to examine new study findings of a stagnation in child mortality rates in India’s urban areas based on the Sample Registration System (SRS) data by Jean Dreze and colleagues in light of new NFHS-5 data from 17 states. The 2020 study had explored data from 20 bigger states and found evidence of a slowdown, pauses, and reversals in infant mortality in large parts o...

Centre said that it is against forced family planning. (Representational) New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that India is unequivocally against forcing family planning on its people and any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions. In an affidavit filed in the top court, the health ministry told the top court that the family welfare programme in the country is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the size of their family and adopt family planning methods best suited to them, according to their choi...

Against involuntary methods of family planning, Centre tells SC ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 18:52 IST New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): The Central government has submitted before the Supreme Court that it is against the involuntary methods of family planning for population control and added that Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in its affidavit filed on December 7, said the Family Welfare Programme in India is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the size of the...