ABSTRACT
The programme of family planning, involving intensive education, provision of facilities and advice on the largest scale possible and widespread popular effort in every rural and urban community has therefore the greatest significance. The broad objective of the health and family planning programmes in the Third Plan is to expand health services, to bring about progressive improvement in health of the people by ensuring a certain minimum of physical well-being and to create conditions favourable to greater efficiency and productivity. By the end of the Second Plan, 2800 primary health units will have been established, covering most of the development blocks. The programme for the Third Plan has been considered by a special committee appointed by the Ministry of Health and by the Planning Commission’s Panel on Health. The programme for family planning in Third Plan provides for education and motivation for family planning, provision of services, training supplies, communication and motivation research demographic research, and medical and biological research.
