explain the objective of national population policy in 2000
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The immediate objective of the NPP 2000 is to address the unmet needs for contraception, health care infrastructure, and health personnel, and to provide integrated service delivery for basic reproductive and child health care. The medium-term objective is to bring the TFR to replacement levels by 2010, through vigorous implementation of inter-sectorial operational strategies.
The long-term objective is to achieve a stable population by 2045, at a level consistent with the requirements of sustainable economic growth, social development, and environmental protection. In pursuance of these objectives, the following National Socio-Demographic Goals to be achieved in each case by 2010 are formulated:
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.
viii. Achieve universal access to information/counseling, and services for fertility regulation and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
ix. Achieve 100% registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
Contain the spread of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and promote greater integration between the management of Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI) and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and the National AIDS Control Organisation.