Rome: The Chinese government’s latest five-year plan proposal contains a birth policy with an emphasis on eugenics, a China scholar said this week. China, known for its decades-long one-child policy, is now looking to counter its ageing population by encouraging Chinese women to have more babies — but only certainContinue Reading
Launched 65 years ago, India’s family planning program has been stressing on limiting the size of families. The first such initiative in the world has been fairly successful. But Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) wants to do away with its implementation in Mizoram as the regional political outfit feels if theContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: A couple from Gujarat’s tribal district Dahod has finally opted for a family planning operation after conceiving 17 children, which includes 16 daughters and a son. Hum do, hamare 17 would have become 18 if the entire village hadn’t come together to convince Ramsinh, 44, to let his wife,Continue Reading
Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilisations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channelled towards providing alternative forms of contraception. Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), saidContinue Reading
“Increasing population of Muslims will cause language and geographical imbalance”Continue Reading