Reasons for the setback of the Family Planning Programme during emergency are as follows:
1.Introduction of a coercive programme of mass sterlisation.
2. A vast number of mostly poor and powerless people were forcibly sterilised. Sterilisation refers to riedical procedures like vasectomy for men and tubectomy for women which prevent conception and childbirth.
3. There was massive pressure on lower level government officials to bring people for sterilisation to the family planning camps, which were organised specially for this purpose.
4. However, there was widespread popular opposition to the programme. Ultimately, this programme was abandoned by the new government eleced after the emergency.
