Explain any three objectives of national population policy 2000
Answers
i. Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies and infrastructure.
ii. Make school education up to age 14 free and compulsory, and reduce dropouts at primary and secondary school levels to below 20% for both boys and girls.
iii. Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
iv. Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100,000 live births.
v. Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases.
vi. Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age.
vii. Achieve 80 percent institutional deliveries and 100% deliveries by trained persons.
The objectives are :
1. Imparting free and compulsory school education upto 14 years of age
2. Reducing infant morality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births
3. Immunisation against all vaccine preventable diseases
4. Promoting delayed marriage for girls