Geography- case study-PC- population control- Kerela

Question 0

What were Kerala’s policies?

Answer 0

-Improving education standards and treating girls as equal with boys
-Providing adult literacy classes in towns and villages
-Educating people to understand the benefits of smaller families
-Reducing infant mortality so people no longer need to have so many children
-Improving child health through vaccination programmes
-Providing free contraception and advice
-Encouraging a higher age of marriage
-Allowing maternity leave for the first 2 babies only
-Providing extra retirement benefits for those with small families
-Following a Land Reform Programme (links with Food Supply Issues)

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Question 1

What were Kerala’s strategies for population change?

Answer 1

focused on social changes to create a society that encourages, but doesn’t enforce, smaller families.

Question 2

When did Kerala’s population change focus start?

Answer 2

The 1960s

Question 3

Effects of the policies

Answer 3

• birth rate was lowered
• free library’s in most villages
• more girls go to university than boys
• no one was landless
• no family could have more then 8 hectares of land (disadvantage for big families)

Question 4

What is Kerala’s life expectancy and how does this differ from the average of the rest of India?

Answer 4

71 compared to the rest of India which is 64