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 Population Council calls for EoI from Researchers.....Click here
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- Best Dissertation Award in the field of Ageing Research.. Click here
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Call for Applications -
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41st Annual Conference of IASP
Demographic and Health Aspects of Covid-19 Pandemic
28-30 November, 2020
Using Online Platform
Hosted by IASP in collaboration with NIHFW
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EPC2020 - European Population Conference... Please click here for Brochure
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Minutes of the EC meeting held on 31.03.2019... Click here
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IASP Team 2019-22... Click here
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IOM UN Migration: Migration Research Series: New Call for Abstracts
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2021
International Population Conference
(IPC 2021)
5-10 December, 2021
Hyderabad, India
Hosted by IASP in collaboration with IUSSP
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International Seminar at AN Sinha Institute, Patna Click here for Brochure
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| IASP Newsletter December 2018 ... Click here |
| IASP Congratulates Prof. KS James , the new Director of IIPS... Click here |
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| Minutes of the GB meeting held on 18-09-2018 at BHU... Click here |
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| New volume of our journal 'Demography India' is available at http://demographyindia.in/ |
Welcome to
IASP
While
concern about the size of India's population
has been shown by the intelligentia right from
the beginning of the present century, active
interest in the study of population became
pronounced only with the launching of planning
for economic and social development after
independence. The First Five Year Plan,
1951-56 duly recognized population as an
important parameter requiring careful
consideration in the planning of development
effort and emphasized the need for undertaking
population research oriented to developmental
policies and programmes. This was followed up
during the Second Five Year Plan by the
establishment of several demographic research
centres under the then Ministry of Health and
Family Planning (now the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare) and a Demographic Training
& Research Centre (now known as
International Institute for Population
Sciences) at Bombay under the joint
sponsorship of the United Nations, Government
of India, and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. Since
then population matters have received
increasing attention of scholars from both
social and bio-medical sciences and the number
of those specializing in population research
and studies has steadily increased.
By 1963, when the first Asian Population
Conference met in New Delhi, the number of
scholars with active interest in population
had become quite sizable. The large group of
Indian participants who had gathered in New
Delhi for this Conference had in their
informal discussions expressed the need for a
professional organization of Indian
demographers like those operating in several
social science disciplines like economics,
sociology, geography, statistics, history,
etc. This need was more forcefully reiterated
in 1969 at the informal meeting of the Indian
demographers which was held in London at the
time of the General Conference of the
International Union for the Scientific Study
of Population.
It was in response to such repeated
expressions of the need for a professional
organi�zation of those engaged in population
research that the group of demographers
located in Delhi/New Delhi took. a lead in the
matter in 1970 with the encouragement and
active support of Professor Asok Mitra and
late Shri A. Chandra Sekhar, successive
Registrar Generals and Census Commissioners of
India. A small preparatory committee, formed
for the purpose, discussed the steps necessary
to establish the organization and delegated
the responsibility of drafting the Memorandum
of Association together with its Rule and
Regulations and that of making necessary
arrangements for its registration under the
Societies Act to a subcommittee comprising
Shri S. P. Jain and Shri R. P. Goyal. Finally
the Association was registered in February,
1971 under the name of Indian Association for
the Study of Population (IASP).
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