The family planning programme suffered during the period of National Emergency. Give reasons.

The family planning programme suffered during the period of National Emergency because the coercive programme of mass sterilization was introduced.

•Number of poor and powerless people forcibly sterilized.

•Sterilization refers to a medical procedure which prevents conception and childbirth.

•There was massive pressure on lower level government officials to bring people for sterilization in the camps organised for this specific purpose