Fertility behaviour in India, as anywhere else, is subject to socio-economic conditions as well as religious and cultural traditions.

New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs): This term denotes the entire spectrum of modern medical techniques targeted at women's bodies, affecting their control over their bodies, bodily processes or products, they include –
• Sex Selection Techniques

The drive for a rapid development in the education of women came largely from a perception summed up aptly in .the following statement by Mayhew: "women

The practice of breast-feeding is almost universal in India. Protecting, promoting and supporting breast-feed in should be the foremost aim of all the communities. Compare the body of a lactating mother to a baby food factory and we find that she is far and away the most efficient [1].