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The Population Foundation of India was established in 1970
and has ever since been in the forefront of non-
governmental efforts to check the runaway growth of
population of the country and establish a balance between
resource, environment and population.
The Foundation was established by a dedicated group of
industrialists and population activists led by. Bharat
Ratna, the late Mr JRD Tata, who guided it as the
Founder Chairman until his death in 1993. The Founding
Fathers believed that a movement of social development
such as family planning should not and cannot remain
the sole concern of the private voluntary enterprises.
The Foundation has, therefore, always worked in close
co-operation and coordination with official agencies and
programmes. In its independent role, it has tried to
guide and influence the national population policy and
to serve as a catalytic agent to promote programmes at
different levels directed towards the ultimate goal of
. population stabilisaton. The Foundation's activity, in the
words of the late Mr JRD Tata, has been focussed on
"advancing the cause of human welfare through family
planning".
The basic aims of the Foundation, as enunciated by its
founders, are:
• to help raise the level of family planning beyond its
traditional confines, by focussing on critical variables
restricting its operation;
• to support innovative research, experimentation and
social action from the point of view of bringing the
grey areas of the programme into bold relief, and
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• to serve as a forum for pooling of experience and
sharing of professional expertise to strengthen and
enlarge the operational base of the pro~ramme; and
• to assist official and public agencies in the
advancement of the cause of promoting human welfare
through family planning and other development
programmes.
9 Board
The Governing Board is headed by Dr Bharat Ram, who
succeeded the late Mr JRD Tata as Chairman in 1993. The
Board determines the policies and programme strategies
of the Foundation including priorities of funding. The
members of the Board, all distinguished in their
respective fields of interest, are:
Dr Bharat Ram,
Chairman
Mr Hari Shankar Singhania,
Vice-Chairman
Dr B KAnand
Dr (Mrs) Banoo J Coyaji
Begum Bilkees Latif
Mr J C Pant
Dr V A Pai Panandiker
Ms Justice Leila Seth
Dr K Srinivasan
(Executive Director, PFI)
Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury
Mr B G Deshmukh
Mr A RNanda
(ex-officio as Secretary,
Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare)
Dr D P Singh
Mr Ratan N Tata
Mrs Avabai B Wadia
Mr B G Verghese
Council
An Advisory Council consisting of eminent experts in
related fields such as Sociology, Demography,
Communications, Health Services, Environment, Education,
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policies and programmes and reviews its achievements from
time to time. Its present members are:
Dr M S Swaminathan, Chairman
Mrs Rami Chhabra
Mrs Meenakshi Datta Ghosh
Dr S H Hassan
Mr Ajay S Mehta .
Dr Yash Pal
Dr Ragini Prem
Mr T L Sankar
Dr K Srinivasan, Executive
Director, PH
Mr T V Antony
Mr T R Satish Chandran
Dr S D Gupta
Dr B K Joshi
Ms Poonam Muttreja
Dr Saroj Pachauri
Prof V Ramalingaswami
Prof G P Talwar
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with Eminent Institutions
Since its inception, the Foundation has supported or
initiated on its own some 360 projects. Prominent non-
government organisations, research institutions, universities
and individuals with outstanding contribution to their areas
of specification were associated with these projects. Some of
the institutions are:
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
• Apex Bodies of Industry
• Family Planning Association of India
• Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram
• Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
• Indian Institute of Health Management Research,
Jaipur
• Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
• Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha
• Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur
• Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and
Research, Chandigarh
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• UNICEF
• UNFPA
In fulfilment of its primary objectives, the Foundation has
all along striven to supplement the efforts of the
Government. Towards this end, it has submitted policy
papers and memoranda to the Government based on
action research projects and research studies supported
by it.
• Interface with policy makers at different levels,
programme administrators and the voluntary sector to
co-ordinate activities
• Promotion of attitudes and opinions in favour of the
small family norm
• Encouragement to research and experimentation on
family planning determinants
• Development of strategies to take care of existing and
fresh challenges
• Promotion of field based action projects as programme
supplements
• Identification of gaps in action programmes and finding
remedies
• Development of contraceptive technology
The Foundation has supported, sponsored and funded
projects covering these areas and continues to do so. Of
late, it has started developing its own projects based on in-
house research in priority areas. These are carried out
through suitable field agencies having the requisite
expertise and capacity to handle such projects. The
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pses of Work done
Some of the important projects supported
by the Foundation in recent years are:
or implemented
Action Research Projects
• Strategic Interventions for Accelerating the pace of
decline in Infant Mortality & fertility - Tikabali (Orissa),
Tehri Garhwal (U.P.) and Damoh (M.P.)
• Promotion of Family Welfare Planning through
practitioners of Indian Medicine Systems in rural
Rajasthan
• Promoting Health and Family Welfare in Dharavi slum in
Mumbai
• Promotion of the Happy Family Concept with
involvement of Panchayats in Pune
• Empowerment of Rural Women with focus on Family
Welfare in Aurangabad District of Bihar
• Rural Family Welfare programme with Community
Participation in Muzafffarpur District in Bihar
• Study of Fertility and Contraceptive Behaviour of
Schedule Caste Peasant Women in Tirupati
• Integrated Health and Development projects in Lalitpur
(U.P.) and Kanpur (U.P.)
Reproductive Health
• Promoting responsible sex behaviour among youth in
Bangalore slums
• Community Resource Mobilisation in improving
Reproductive Health in Wardha
• Intensive Reproductive Health and Family Welfare
project in the industrial belt of Ghaziabad
• Reproductive Health package for married women in
industrial rural and urban slum areas and study of its
effect on the use of spacing methods in Delhi and Aligarh
Biomedical
• A biomedical study group of leading scientists
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• Status Report on contraceptive technology and
identification of research areas
• Career Development Scheme for young scientists in the
field of Reproductive Health and Contraceptive
Technology
• Clinical-pharmaceutical evalution of indigenous plants
including 'Banjarui' and 'Neem'
Training
• Training of Panchayat members from District to village
level to shoulder constitutional responsibilities in
relation to Reproductive Health and allied programmes
- Dharmapur and Dindigul (Tamil Nadu), Chitradurga
(Karnataka), Pune (Maharasthra), Sawai Madhopur
(Rajasthan), Bankura (West Bengal) and Lalitpur
(U.P.)
• Empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions in the State
of Haryana
• Development of Training Resource Development Centre
(TRDC) to impart training to middle-level managers
working in slums of Delhi
l~lrata Memorial Oration
The Foundation instituted in 1990 a lecture series
under the title "Encounter with Population Crisis."
These lectures were delivered by national and
international celebrities annually. They were Dr Norman
E Borlaug, Dr M S Swaminathan, Late Dr Asok Mitra,
Dr Abid Hussain, and Mr Vasant Sathe. After the demise of
Mr JRD Tata, this annual lecture series was rechristened as
"JRD Tata Memorial Oration". These orations were delivered
by Mr Ramakrishna Hegde, Mr Chandrashekar,
Mr I K Gujral, Dr (Mrs) Najma Heptullah and Dr Nafis Sadik.
The text of these lectures is printed for wider
circulation.
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Tata Award
In memory of its founder Chairman, the late MrJRD Tata,
the Foundation has introduced national level awards for the
best performing State and Districts which have done well in
the field of Reproductive Health. The inaugural awards were
announced on 29th July, 1997 coinciding with Mr Tata's
birthday. Kerala had won the inaugural award for the best
State while the districts of Palakkad, Chidambaranar and
Kurukshetra had won the awards in their respective
population categories. JRD Tata Awards for 2000 were
announced on the 28th of July.
Thrust Areas
In view of the recent population projections which indicate
continued rapid growth in the next 20 years and the
country's commitment to the policy of promoting family
planning in a package of reproductive health programme
and improvement in the quality of life, the Foundation has
readjusted its priorities to concentrate on certain selected
areas. These include :
• Empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions
• Advocacy role in moulding community attitude in
favour of family planning as part of development
programme
• Population Policy at the State level
• Reproductive health needs of the adolescents
• Promotion of reproductive health in urban slums
• Promotion of integrated health and development action
projects
• Management Aspects of the Programme
• . Networking with government/non-government
organisations
The projects undertaken by the Foundation are reflection of
the new thrust in its activities consistent with the principle
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cia! Support
The major areas of activity in which the Foundation extends
financial support to other agencies are :
• Integrated Population-Development-tnvironment linked
Policy Research,Action Demonstration Projects
• Reproductive health aspects of population and their
relationship with fertility regulation and mortality
control
• Gender equity and demographic transition
• Medical aspect of family planning and bio-medical and
contraceptive technology to a limited extent before the
stage of human trials
• Information, Education and Communication strategies in
population-development-environment issues
• Management, Marketing and Community Distribution
Technique and involvement of Organised sector in
population issues
• Special Sector programmes linking family planning and
reproductive health with agriculture, industry, labour
and employment, education, health, social development
and e:nvironment
• Demographic Surveys/Studies on special topics of
current interest
Sources of Funds
The funds of the Foundation are derived from donations
made by the private sector industries as well as return on
its investments.
Donations to the Foundation are exempt from Income Tax
under Section 80(G)2(a)vii of the Income Tax Act 1961 and
the income by way of interest and rent is also exempt from
Income Tax under Section 10(23C)(iv).
Latest Publications
• Population Policy and Reproductive Health (1996) - An
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• India: Population, Reproductive Health, Human
Development - A Wall Chart (1996)
• Demography of the Nation: Dr K Srinivasan (1997)
• India: Human Development and Related Indices - 1998
• State of India's Population - 1998
• Uttar Pradesh: Population and Development 1998 - A
Wall Chart & District Profile
• Reproductive and Child Health: A Training Module (1998)
• Madhya Pradesh & Haryana : Population and
Development 1999 - Wall Charts & District Profiles
• Voluntary Action in Health and Population: The
Dynamics of Social Transition (1999)
• Haryana Panchayati Raj - A Training Module (1999)
Video Films
• People Show the Way: UPASI
• Vijaya's Story
• Lalita Ki Kahani
• People, Population and our Leaders
• Apna Raj Panchayati Raj
Towards Social Development
The Foundation has come a long way since 1970, marching
with time and reshaping its activities in the light of the
changing priorities. Beginning with pure research-oriented
studies, its activities now cover the entire range of
population problems in a developing society. While
controlling the runaway growth of population remains the
main concern of the Foundation, it is now active in the
wider field of development through family welfare and
reproductive health programmes in the true perspective of
development and environmental issues faced by mankind.