Family Welfare Structure in the Country and Issue-Based Management Support Structure

Abstract

The moot point on organisational set-up is whether the country has put in place the right kind of organisational set-up for population control and family planning as envisaged in serial 20A in the Concurrent List. In fact, for execution of item 20A of the Concurrent List, there is no nodal ministry or department in the country who has been empowered to deal with all related issues concerning ‘population control and family planning. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has only been empowered to deal with ‘Family Welfare Matters’, a sub-set function of ‘population control and family planning’ responsibility in the country. Additionally, in the context of India surpassing the huge size of population of China in the foreseeable year of 2030, the country needs to scale up a robust regime of population control to contain the runaway population. Further, the Sustainable Summit 2015 has enjoined a big responsibility to India to reach SDGs by 2030 which is only possible if sustainable population can be put in place at the first place. Moreover, the Paris Summit on climatic change also enjoins additional responsibility to control human-induced emission level at an internationally agreed level. All these belong to big-ticket reforms which call for revamping and restructuring the entire organisational set-ups of Family welfare to the level of “Population Control and Family Planning’ for proactive, effective and outcome ensuring organisational set-up in the states of India to initiate the process for Sustainable population and enable us to reach SDGs by 2030.