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Objectives
While concern about
the size of India's population has been shown by the intelligential right
from the beginning of the present century, active interest in the study of
population became pronounced only with the launching of planning for
economic and social development after independence. The First Five Year
Plan, 1951-56 duly recognized population as an important parameter requiring
careful consideration in the planning of development effort and emphasized
the need for undertaking population research oriented to developmental
policies and programmes. This was followed up during the Second Five Year
Plan by the establishment of several demographic research centres under the
then Ministry of Health and Family Planning (now the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare) and a Demographic Training & Research Centre (now known as
International Institute for Population Sciences) at Bombay under the joint
sponsorship of the United Nations, Government of India, and Sir Dorabji Tata
Trust. Since then population matters have received increasing attention of
scholars from both social and bio-medical sciences and the number of those
specializing in population research and studies has steadily increased.
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