Big family matters.

The article discusses the commitment of India to improve family planning services, as its population is set to overtake that of China by 2023. Topics mentioned include the global shortfall in access to contraception, a basket of contraceptive choices for women including injectables and oral pills to be made available through the public health system under the National Family Planning programme, and criticisms against tubal ligation or tubectomy, the country's main form of family planning.