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Question
What is the popular sign for the Family Planning and Welfare Centres in India?
Solution
The four methods of birth control are:
- Vasectomy: This involves the breaking of the contact between the sperms and ovum, by cutting the vas deferens or sperm duct which carries sperms from the testes to the outside in the man. It prevents pregnancy.
- Tubectomy: Severing and sealing off the fallopian tubes so that the mature ovum may not come in contact with the incoming sperms.
- Contraceptives: Loops, condoms, creams, etc., are used as contracetive which keep away sperms from meeting the ovum.
- Voluntary methods: Which include : (a) avoiding from sexual intercourse during the unsafe period of ovulation, (b) Frequent use of contraceptive.
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Sterilisation in men means preventing the flow of sperms into the seminal vesicles by cutting and ligating the vas deferens. Can there be a corresponding operation made in women? If yes, where?
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Choose the correct answer:
World population doubles in _______
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Match the Columns:
Column 2 is a list of items related to ideas in Column 1. Match the term in Column 2 with the suitable idea given in Column 1.
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
| (i) Family Planning | (a) Counting of population |
| (ii) Vasectomy | (b) Sterilization in female |
| (iii) Tubectomy | (c) T.R. Malthus |
| (iv) Census | (d) Sterilization in male |
| (v) Malthusian theory | (e) Red triangle. |
