Niti Aayog seeks experts’ views to strengthen population policy

New Delhi: Niti Aayog will on Friday brain storm with top policy makers, experts and specialists on ways and means of strengthening India’s population policy and family planning programme. The Aayog has partnered with the Population Foundation of India for the national level conference.

Any proposal emerging from the conference will form part of the Niti Aayog working paper that will outline the road map to help achieve India’s vision of attaining population stabilisation, as voiced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year.

“The working paper is expected to address key gaps in India’s family planning programmes,” Niti Aayog said in a statement on Thursday.


The paper will offer constructive recommendations to address regional disparities in outcomes by focusing on adolescents and youths, inter-departmental convergence, demand generation, access to contraceptive services and quality of care, it said.

India, with a current population size of 1.37 billion, has the second largest population in the world. Though birth rates are falling in India yet the population continues to grow as over 30% of the population is young and in the reproductive age group.