ABSTRACT
Population policy and the general development strategy are two sides of the same coin. Uncontrolled growth of population in the Indian Context has profound implications for the development plans and the concomitant problems of food supply, nutrition, employment and above all for the essential dimensions of quality of life which we wish to ensure to the people. The Working Group strongly emphasizes that our population policy should reflect the concern for individual’s as well as community’s dignity, aspirations, development and wellbeing. The fertility rates of a population are an integral part of the levels of development of the society and low fertility rates can be sustained only in the context of a certain level of development. A major institutional innovation suggested to the Group was the Population Commission. The Population Policy Board would not be very different in terms of the problems it will face. An executive board of this type with financial and investment powers and decision-making.
