Population Change - Kerala

Question 1

What is Kerala the case study for?

Answer 1

Sustainable anti-natalist policy

Question 2

What was Kerala’s policy?

Answer 2

• Improving education standards, treating girls = boys
• Providing adult literary classes
• Educating people to understand benefits of smaller families
• Reducing IMR
• Improving child health through vaccinations
• Encouraging a higher age of marriage
• Allowing maternity leave for first 2 children
• Extra retirement benefits for small families

Question 3

What are the effects of Kerala’s policy?

Answer 3

• More girls go to university than boys
• The Right to Literacy programme organises reading and writing classes in villages
• Most villages have free libraries
• Land in Kerala was redistributed so that nobody was landless, nobody was allowed more than 8 hectares