Sterilisation and Family Planning

Abstract

By the end of 1970-71, about 19% of the total number of couples in the reproductive age-group, estimated to be IO4.3 millions, were covered  by family planning  programme. That is, these couples were either protected from further conception by sterilization, male or female, or using other methods to prevent conception. Of the 19.7 million couples thus covered, as many as 14.7 million (almost three-fourths) were protected by sterilization.