Abstract
Reproduced below are two documents concerning population policy in India. The first item is a transcript of a television interview given by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The interview, conducted by Mrs. Rami Chhabra of the Family Planning Foundation, was broadcast in New Delhi on 24 September 1980. This marked the first time that Mrs. Gandhi engaged in a lengthy public discussion of this subject since her return to power following the elections of January 1980. The general tone and substance of Mrs. Gandhi's comments are much more reminiscent of pronouncements on the family planning program by the Janata government (see for example the December 1978 broadcast by then Prime Minister Desai as printed in PDR Vol. 5, no. 1) than of the strong antinatalist line taken by the formal policy statement issued by the earlier Gandhi administration in 1976 (PDR Vol. 2, no. 2). The second item is commentary on-and a strong endorsement of Mrs. Gandhi's views (as reflected in the interview) by Ashish Bose, a prominent social scientist associated with the Institute of Economic Growth of Delhi University. Bose's commentary was broadcast on All India Radio on 30 September 1980.
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