The last four decades of Indian history is marked with rapid economic growth along with a rise in population with increasing rates of urba
The state of West Bengal has a population of 9.03 crores of which 19.98 percent live below the poverty line.
Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.
The paper examines women’s economic empowerment in Asia, with a particular focus on South Asia.
Sterilization for men and women is the most commonly used contraceptive method both in India at large and in Uttar Pradesh.
Sterilization is the most popular method of contraception in India. The 1992-93 National Family Health Survey found that of the 36.2 percent of eligible couples using any modern method, most (30.7 percent) had been sterilized and only 5.5 percent were using temporary methods (IIPS 1995).