The planning Commission envisaged control of population growth rate through Five
Year Plans in India. How far this objective materialised, has been examined in
this book having separate chapter on (1) Fertility (its inter-state scenario in
the Sixties and in the Nineties), (2) Differentials of fertility and (3) Family
welfare (plans and achievements). Household sample survey data as collected by
the Indian statistical Institute, Calcutta through the National Sample Survey
(NSS) in the Sixties, those by the Registrar General of India through the Sample
Registration Scheme (SRS) and those by the International Institute for
Population Sciences, Mumbai through the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in
the nineties have