Indians need to share contraceptive responsibility

In 1952, India pioneered a national programme for family planning, whose focus has since changed — from improving maternal and child health to stabilising the population.

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As this programme evolved, so too did permanent methods of contraception.During 1966-70, about 80.5% of all sterilisation procedures in India were vasectomies. This percentage declined every year due to changing policies that, together with other factors, placed less and less of an emphasis on vasectomies. The five rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NHFS) also show the use of male sterilisation, especially in the last three decades, to be steadily decreasing in all States. In fact, the vasectomies percentage remained constant at around 0.3% in NFHS-4 (2015-16) and NFHS-5.

Gender and the disparity