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April 1976 the then Union Minister of Health and Family Planning announced in Parliament a new population policy for India. The work under review is an attempt to study the policy implications of the various measures incorporated in the new population policy package and to assess the nature of the effect they are likely to produce on different classes of people. Its specific objectives are: (1) to examine the contents of the new policy with a view to seeing how far it can serve as a viable population po'licy for the country and, more specifically, the policy implications of the scheme of incentives and disincentives incorporated in the new package;(2) to explore the thinking and motivation of the State Governments towards the new policy, including the measures taken by them on their own initiative; (3) to assess the capability of the administration, including the family-planning infrastructure, for putting through the new measures effectively; and (4) to find out the understanding and attitudes of different classes of people towards the family-planning programme in general and the new measures in particular, and to assess the nature of the effect these measures are likely to produce on them (p. 20).To attain these objectives the authors have carried out an empirical study in four States, viz Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. They have selected two districts in each of these four States, one comparatively well developed and the other comparatively backward. They have taken up an urban Family Planning Centre and a rural Primary Health Centce for study in each of these districts.

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