Question

Which of the following measures is undertaken by the government to control overpopulation?

• A. Education about advantages of large family
• B. Family planning
• C. increasing IMR
• D. increasing MMR

Answer 1

The correct option is B Family planning

Awareness among the people about the reproductive health of an individual in all aspects like physical, emotional, behavioral, and social well being leads to development of good reproductive health and practices. This awareness can be spread among people by establishing a local organisation that teaches people about how to maintain reproductive health.

People should be educated about the advantages of having a small family.

The maternal mortality rate is the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Infant mortality rate, on the hand, refers to the number of deaths per 1,000 live births of children under one year of age. Even though it leads to decline in population, these are not ethical ways to do so because increasing IMR and MMR would mean to deliberately kill mothers and newborn children.