Population Stabilization Through District Action Plans

by Badri N. Saxena, Charan D. Wadhva, O P Sharma

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The present volume is the outcome of the material generated during the course of implementation of the Population Policy Research Project entitled "Mobilization of National and State Policy Makers on Population Policy" at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. It documents learnings and experiences of implementation of the National and State Population Policies. The unique contribution of this book relates to the formulation of implementable District Action Plans (DAPs) for population stabilisation. The districts selected in this study for drawing up DAPs include: Muzaffarpur in Bihar; Chattarrpur in Madhya Pradesh; Alwar in Rajasthan and Budayun in Uttar Pradesh. This volume contains 11 chapters. Introductory chapter outlines the several key problems of population stabilization efforts in selected four Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India listed above, which have a considerable degree of commonality. The salient features of the methodology adopted in formulation of DAPs have been explained. The second chapter provides an overview of the population scenario in India with particular reference to selected four EAG States. The third and fourth chapters are devoted to population scenario in Bihar and District Action Plan (DAP) to Muzaffarpur District. Chapters five and six deal with the population scene in Madhya Pradesh and DAP of Chhatarpur District. Chapters seven and eight are concerned with population scenario in Rajasthan and DAP of Alwar District. Chapters nine and ten deal with the population scene in Uttar Pradesh and DAP of Budayun District. The concluding chapter eleven presents the findings of this book and suggests the agenda for future research. This book would be extremely useful to the demographers; health-educators; economists; social and family welfare agencies of the government at all levels; development administrators and policy makers in government, NGOs, other voluntary agencies and Self Help Groups.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charan D. Wadhva

Charan D. Wadhva, Ph.D. (Yale University, USA) is Research Professor and the Former President and Chief Executive at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. He has served as Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. He also held the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professorship at that Institute. He was the first Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi. He served as a Member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India during 2002-03 and 2003-04. He has been a Consultant to various National and International Organisations. He has also served on Boards (and constituent bodies) of corporations and educational institutions. He is also a member of the editorial board of reputed journals including the Pacific Affairs published by University of British Columbia, Canada. He has several books and articles in professional journals to his credit.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR O P Sharma

Dr. Omprakash Sharma, Associate Professor in the Department of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur has an undergraduate teaching experience of more than twenty six years in the field of Limnology, Fisheries and Aquaculture. He has guided four Ph.D. and 16 M. Sc. (Ag.) in Limnology and Fisheries M.F.Sc. (aquaculture) students.Dr. Sharma has to his credit more than 40 research publications published in reputed national and international journals and proceedings as well as several articles on fishreises and aquaculture. He has been awarded Dr. Gopalju Srivastava merit certificate for best note in “Matsya”, a journal of Indian Society of Ichthyology, Madras.