Word: ramasundaram
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Long before the Cairo conference, Nirmala complained about the birth-control numbers game, but superiors told her she would be "suspended" if she challenged policy. Only in 1992 did she get a real hearing, when S. Ramasundaram took over Tamil Nadu's family-welfare program. Nirmala told him that birth-control targets made mothers distrust nurses and resist the policy. Later, she said nurses would forgo the sterilization bonuses if allowed to do their jobs without so much government interference...
...When Ramasundaram followed the nurses' advice, the results were dramatic. The state's population growth rate has dropped from 1.5% in 1991 to 1% in 1999, compared with 1.8% for India as a whole. "You don't need draconian measures for family planning," Ramasundaram says. "Simply remove the shackles and let people do what they were supposed...
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