ABSTRACT
Given the fact that the “excesses” of the family planning programme during the Emergency years, directed at men, had had a profound political fall-out, from the Sixth Plan period (1980–85) onwards, attention turned towards women. It was precisely at this point that women’s groups came to question many of the assumptions underlying the programme. The documents provided here include the Shah Commission of Equiry (a document not easy to access), the National Population Policy of 1982 etc.
