Possible Targets and their Attainment in the Field of Family Planning in India during 1966-76

It is intended to get here an estimate of the number of couples that may be helped to stop child-bearing so that the birth-rate declines by a given percentage. Hereafter this number is referred to as the target. From the performance of the sterilization programme and the I.U.D. progrramme in a limited area, the possible attainments during the next 10 years in the decline in birth-rate due to these programmes have been assessed in this paper.