The problem of overpopulation especially in the developing world is one of the bottlenecks to socio-economic development. The performance of the family planning programme has not been edequate as compared to the resources put in the programme. The programme has been examined from different angles but very little effort has been made to examine the family planning programme from administrative angle. In this book, we have discussed the administrative components of the programme which are responsible to great extent for the success/failure of the programme. The effectiveness of family planning programme and population programme can be increased through the sound use of modern management techniques. The management of family planning programme can take the help of the various techniques for this purpose. e.g ‘systems approach’ of operational research, system analysis, programme budgeting computer-based information system; techniques concerned with the productive use of resources such as work study, network analysis and cost analysis and organizational and behavioural methods concerned with personnel selection, training, motivation, communication, adaptation to change, working in groups, the organizational development, management by objectives, etc. thus, the policy-makers and planners for family planning programme must also plan for effective implementation machinery to optimize the use of resources. Besides, we have discussed the role of information, education and communication services. A separate chapters on “Beyond Family Planning†has been added to identify the policies, which directly or indirectly, influence the overall fertility beyond the existing family planning programme.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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