Experts are increasingly emphasizing the need to assess the quality of family planning services from the users' perspective.

THERE is enough evidence to show that often, development policies adopted by governments have widened the disparities amongst sections of people.

Indian society consists of immensely varied political, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious and community groups, which, by and large, reside in villages, where poverty, misconceived religious notions, social customs, illiteracy, ignorance and superstitions prevail.