Towards a National Health Policy
The supreme court has
given a timely direction to the
central and state governments regarding
the conduct of sterilisation camps since, considerable number of deaths
have occurred due to family planning surgery performed in the sterilisation
camps is India’s population policy has
always been women centric. A comparison between
data on tubectomies and
vasectomies proves this point. The attitude of callously treating the young mothers deaths in sterilization camps by giving inadequate monetary compensation is
injustice to the families which have been losing young women leaving husbands
and young children to manage their households . Education and employment
of women have already proved to have reduced fertility rate . But to make these
positive steps more effective ,certain other measures like, liberal
scholarships for higher education , more
number of women hostels, easy access to
education loans , flexi time, part-time, work from home options and baby care
centers in the work campuses are to be provided on a large scale to women.
Women , especially rural women are to be educated about the various methods of
spacing of children , because sterilization is imposed on them without giving choices to other means of
reducing fertility rate . The Population division of the UN has understood the
reason for greater reliance on sterilization and hence , has noted down the mismatch between the various population control measures in India .
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