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- The Population Foundation of India argues that national policies should transition away from population control measures following a decline in the country's total fertility rate.
- The organization supports recommendations to remove incentives for sterilization and abandon two-child limit policies.
- It highlights the need to address healthcare access, reproductive autonomy, and support for frontline workers instead of focusing on population reduction.
- This shift aims to better reflect India's current demographic reality where fertility rates in many states have fallen below replacement levels.
What to watch next
- Potential government policy changes regarding sterilization incentives
- Updates to the Mission Parivar Vikas framework
- Developments in the professional status and pay for ASHA workers
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Poonam Muttreja
Executive Director at PFI
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“India's demographic transition remains deeply uneven”
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…and parts of northern India, are already experiencing very low fertility and will need to plan for ageing, a shrinking younger population, care needs, migration and workforce changes, it said. "At the same time, India's demographic transition remains deeply uneven ," Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director at PFI, said. "National averages hide significant differences across states, districts, income groups, rural and urban populations, and levels of education and access to health…
“India's policy response must avoid two mistakes: continuing with old population-control thinking on the one hand, and moving towards fertility panic or pronatalist pressure on the other”
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…health services," it said. "We cannot move from population control to informed choice while continuing to depend on underpaid frontline workers carrying the burden of programme delivery," the organisation said. " India's policy response must avoid two mistakes: continuing with old population-control thinking on the one hand, and moving towards fertility panic or pronatalist pressure on the other ," Muttreja said. "The role of the state is not to push families to have fewer or more children. It is to ensure that every person, especially women and young people, has the information, services and freedom to make…
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