Family Planning
This is a piece of information that I recently came across (through Rohan).Not that it matters anymore, but just to show what kind of times we’ve been through.
In 1976, Sanjay Gandhi launched a drive to cleanse the city of slums and force their residents to leave the capital. Sanjay reportedly ordered officials of the Delhi Development Authority, headed by his associate Jagmohan, to clear the heavily populated, mostly Muslim slum near the Turkman Gate and Jama Masjid in Delhi. This forced resettlement of more than 250,000 people killed at least a dozen as recorded and became a touchstone for the opposition.
Sanjay also publicly initiated a widespread family planning program to limit population growth. But this resulted in government officials and police officers forcibly performing vasectomies in order to meet quotas and in some cases, sterilizing women as well. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilization, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also believed to have been sterilized. This program is still remembered and criticized in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmes for decades.
-Aditya Raghuwanshi
I think the intentions behind the proceedings were good, only they dint work right. Plus the corrupt hierarchy of the government officials made it worse.
NO?
ira said this on July 20, 2008 at 12:43 am |
the process clouds the intentions…
adi said this on July 20, 2008 at 3:22 am |
Well, true. But any process is initiated by intentions which then mature into materializing, neh?
ira said this on July 20, 2008 at 9:44 pm |
but somethin needs to be done..the way v multiply ud think v use vedic maths in th bedroom too!!
the poultrygeist!!! said this on July 20, 2008 at 10:05 pm |
gross
Aditya Raghuwanshi said this on July 21, 2008 at 10:36 am |
Ira, regardless of the intentions – the means must be examined. Your argument then Ira could be extended to terrorists – justifying their extremities in their efforts to create believers/ defend their religion.
Besides it is the absurd PROCESS borderlining a progrom which Adi is trying to highlight here – not the intentions.
R said this on July 21, 2008 at 5:22 pm |
he’s talking about the absurd process and I’m justifying that the intentions were good but maybe the process blurred that.
I’ll keep my view centred to what we were talking about, not every view can hold the same for all situations. So the terrorist thing seems un reasonable to me here..
and yeah poltegerist>gross!! :p
Anonymous said this on July 22, 2008 at 2:24 pm |
he’s talking about the absurd process and I’m justifying that the intentions were good but maybe the process blurred that.
I’ll keep my view centered to what we were talking about, not every view can hold the same for all situations. So the terrorist thing seems un reasonable to me here..
and yeah poltergeist>gross!! :p
not anonymous, ira..
ira said this on July 22, 2008 at 2:26 pm |
actually i’m pointing out the maniacal tendencies sanjay gandhi had.
the controversy that surrounds this act was not how the officials carried out the orders or not, but around the point that were they just following sanjay’s orders.
-Aditya
TCG Inc. said this on July 22, 2008 at 3:34 pm |
odi baba!!
interesting part is … sanjay gandhi was always the forceful one – he was what many indians (including me) have said or are saying – he was a man who would not stop at anything for national progress; a dictator in every way.
for the record – i don’t agree with his method for population control;
VelaSwami said this on July 24, 2008 at 7:43 pm |
i’m nt pointing out charactrer flaws or opinions…just informing bout a controversy
adi said this on July 24, 2008 at 9:08 pm |
point taken. understood.
my comment was more like loud thinking.
VelaSwami said this on July 24, 2008 at 9:54 pm |
i wanna see this article in ..
http://www.article.com
cas said this on March 25, 2009 at 12:02 pm |