This paper aims to explore the nutritional and health status and patterns of children and women in eight North Eastern States using health and nutritional indicators.

This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology.

Governmental efforts towards fertility reduction often face a dilemma: babies who are planners' worry are also a parent's hope and joy (Mandelbaum 1974:110). The beliefs of the people on this subject and what planners believe ought to be done may on occasion diverge substantially.

Fertility behaviour includes not only biological but also social reproduction, involving a complex network of institutions.