XI Five Year Plan 2007-2012 - Public Health & Family Welfare ...

1. Introduction
Diversity in Socio-economic conditions is in the nature of the State. Huge area and thin
density of population as compared with other states makes the State a difficult terrain,
hard to reach and inaccessible. In terms of Human Development Index (HDI) with an
index value of 37 the State lags behind the all India average of 45. While taking into
account the health indices e.g. Total Fertility Rate (TFR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR),
Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Birth Rate, the State is considered as one of the
BIMARU state. Population of the State has doubled in 30 years, between 1951 and
1981, from 26 million to 52 million. It is estimated that, it will double again in following 34
years, that is, in the year 2015 the state’s population would be around 105 million. Every
year nearly 1.4 million people are added into the state’s population.
Madhya Pradesh has the credit of initiating the implemention of the Panchayati
Raj Adhiniyam 1993. State has 22029 PRIs with about 3.20 lacs elected
representatives, of whom 1.30 lacs are women. Women members of elected
bodies have a vital role to play in the process of achieving stabilised population
and implementation of reproductive heath services to the community. State govt.
has passed an act in 1995 which will enable District Planning Committees,
popularly known as Zila Sarkar, to prepare consolidated development plan for the
entire district. DPC have been made responsible for the implementation and
monitoring of the population stabilisation efforts in the district.
Population is merely not a problem as long as we find our self in a position to
cater the basic needs of the people like education, health, food, housing,
electricity, safe drinking water etc. Today, our natural resources as well as
financial resources are sinking and we are able to fulfill the basic needs of the
people. Although state government is committed to improve the quality of the life
of its people, but providing education, heath, safe drinking water and housing to
every one is beyond the capacity of the government. Not only this our resources