CUET UG Biology Unit Test 2

#1. Passage: India was amongst the first countries in the world to initiate action plans and programmes at a national level to attain total reproductive health as a social goal. These programmes called ‘family planning’ were initiated in 1951. Improved programmes covering wider reproduction-related areas are currently in operation under the popular name ‘Reproductive and Child Health Care (RCH) programmes’. One of the most important steps to check population growth is to motivate smaller families by using various contraceptive methods. An ideal contraceptive should be user-friendly, easily available, effective and reversible with no or least side-effects. Contraceptive methods are broadly grouped into categories like Natural, Barrier, IUDs, Oral contraceptives, Injectables, Implants and Surgical methods. 41. In which year were the first national family planning programmes initiated in India?