Education
Compulsory free education is provided up to the age of 14.
2001 Census showed the national literacy rate was 65%.
75% males and 54% females are literate.
Improvements have been made by the government in the past two decades.
1952 – 2001 saw the literacy rate rise from 16-65%.
Agriculture
72% of India’s population is rural
4200 people = the average size of a village.
58% are in farming
Low education, high mortality rate
Technology access is limited
Planning Issues
First country to adopt a policy to slow population growth in 1952.
Family planning was introduced in1956-61.
1976-77 8.3million involuntary sterilizations were performed to combat increasing population growth rates.
The legislative assembly of the Marharashtra State, India, passed in 1976 a bill for compulsory sterilization which would limit families to a governmentally determined size. this went aginst the UNs human rights human right to determine family size, space children, and, most important, to have an awareness of and access to the means necessary to facilitate that decision.
The Marharashtra Family Act requires that if a couple has 3 living children one of the parents be sterilized, unless the children are of the same sex.
Failure to lower birth rates in states effects political seats in government
The state of Maharashta has introduced a policy that anybody with two or more children are not allowed in any elective government.
Introducing a two child policy
Female sterilization is the overwhelming choice for contraception, accounting for a full four fifths of contraceptive use.
