Assocham suggests Centre to adopt incentive based population control

AHMEDABAD: On World Population Day, apex industry body Assocham has suggested the Centre to adopt an incentive based population control strategy and create a nodal agency to oversee its implementation process.
"Engaging systematically identified government agencies and concerned stakeholders, harnessing private resources for creating well-equipped health facilities, systematic flow of information on population trends, monitoring and evaluating demographic change regularly, developing national communication strategies to ensure participation of unreached groups and regions in population control would be certain key functions performed by the nodal agency," highlighted a study titled ‘Effective Population Control: India’s need of the hour,’ conducted by Assocham.
In its study, Assocham has also suggested the new government to set up a dedicated population control fund at every village level, besides adequate funding, promotional and motivational incentives must be given through legislation for families committed to small family norm. "The incentive based system must adequately take note of people’s aspirations and create confidence amid them that family planning would ensure meeting of those aspirations."
Besides, Assocham has suggested the new government to roll out a universal health insurance program thereby making free and qualified health and family planning services integral to health insurance.