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The growth rate of population is on declining trend in Orissa since 1971. High prevalence of couple protection rate among tribal dominated districts of Orissa indicates towards the plight of tribal people because innocent and poor tribal are lured by the incentive provided by the health and family welfare department. The districts with high proportion of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population have higher couple protection rate in comparison to districts with lower percentage of scheduled population. The relationship between family planning performance and socio-economic variables such as female literacy rate, percentage of urban population, female work force participation rate and proportion of scheduled caste/tribe population is a good measure to analyse the influence of development on CPR. Female work force participation rate shows a highly positive and significant correlation with CPR in Orissa. High CPR in Orissa cannot be explained on the basis of developmental indicators because it is a developing state having low levels of industrialisation and urbanisation. It is also agriculturally backward state of India. So the state government should make conscious efforts to uplift the health and educational infrastructure particularly for females and scheduled population to prevent their exploitation.