A major challenge under the new RCH approach is operationalising the paradigm shift to a comprehensive and integrated program into reality.

Following the International Population and Development Conference in Cairo, there is widespread consensus in the international community that family planning programs must be people-centered, and further, that family planning programs should focus not just on contraception per se,but on the repro

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].

The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies.