Violence is generally interpreted as physical, sexual and mental abuse of individuals.

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations.

While a couple, and more specifically women must have access to knowledge and services to regulate fertility, this right is distinctly different from the objectives of the policies of population control.

In 1931, the Fundamental Rights Resolution passed by the Indian National Congress adopted gender equality as a guiding principle.

The health status of women is a reflection of their social status. In order to get a clear picture of the health status of Indian women, we need to have reliable data on mortality, morbidity, nutritional status, problems related to reproduction, access to and utilization of services, etc.

The present paper discusses the status of tribal women in terms of their demography, health; education and employment. Despite constitutional protection and assurances, even after four and a half decades, their status is

The Indian family welfare program is a centrally sponsored scheme, implemented by the State governments within the framework of elaborate guidelines and norms developed by the Central Government.

The status of women in many parts of rural India is low. The situation is even worse among tribal communities or primitive societies, which constitute approximately 7.5 percent of the total population of the country [1]. In such

The issues of equality of access to health care has two related questions - access whom and access to what? They seem to have a simple answer: there should be access to health care services for anyone in need of it.

The term status of women is very elusive in concept and there are difficulties in defining as well as measuring it (for a detailed discussion on this subject, see Mason [1].