The concern of the Government to control population growth deserves appreciation. Its concerted efforts were responsible for reducing the population growth to some extent. Perhaps, the population of today would have exceeded that of China. The Government has created the infrastructure for family planning and set up institutions for training and research. Thanks to its efforts, the whole country today is aware of family planning. There has been an appreciable fall in the birth rate also. The new National Population Policy of 1976 is a comprehensive statement and it integrates all the essential aspects of population growth. As J.R.Rele and Asha Bhende observed, "it was probably for the first time that any country in the World has made a population policy statement which was fairly comprehensive.