Four members of a family found hanging in their house in TN

Bodies of a couple and their two sons were today found hanging in their house near Palladam in nearby Tirupur district.
Police said the 45-year-old Thamaraikannan was doing hosiery business and was staying with his wife and his two sons on the third floor of the building of his firm.
Since he did not respond to his father's mobile phone calls, Thamaraikannan's father alerted his friends, who rushed to the spot and broke open the door, only to find his body hanging from the ceiling at the entrance, police said.
Noting that the Centre funds family planning activities
in states through two channels - the Family Welfare budget and National Health Mission (NHM), PFI said though the allocation for family planning increased by 47 per cent from 2013-14 to 2015-16 under NHM, it still fell short of the required amount.

Fund allocations under the family welfare budget saw a sharp decline of 54 per cent during the same period. As contraceptives, information, education and communication activities are covered by this, the decline is extremely worrying, PFI said.

The study showed that going by the current rate of increase of mCPR (modern contraceptive prevalence rate), India would have about 32.8 million additional users, that is about 15 million short of the committed FP2020 goal.
"Therefore, India will have to do much more to cover the gap in terms of making available contraceptive supplies, outreach services, and trained manpower to address the needs," it said.

Private players that have been dominating the spacing contraceptive market in the country and their participation is "crucial" to meet the goal, the PFI study said.
"As per the current trend, users covered by the private sector are expected to reach 9.79 million, while the required number should be 21.6 million to meet the goal.
"This implies a gap of 11.8 million users that are unlikely to be covered by the private market unless the government steps in with additional public resources and involves the private sector through social marketing or franchising mechanisms," it said.
Expressing concern on the allocation of resources, it said the government's financial documents do not show any evidence of planned progress towards achieving the desired contraceptive method mix with a focus on spacing.

"There continues to exist a significant bias towards limiting methods. About 82 per cent of the NHM flexi pool budget and 71 per cent of total resources are allocated for compensation, mostly to users of limiting methods and incentives to those providing them.
"Also, the changing pattern of the Centre-state allocation formula, where states with their tight resources and low priority to family planning activities, are expected to share 40 per cent of the programme funds from their own resources instead of the earlier 25 per cent. This would greatly hamper the meeting of the goal," it said.