What are the features of National Population Policy 2000? Answer in five points.
Answers
The National Population Policy, 2000 (NPP 2000) has the following features:
1.Providing free and compulsary education for children(boys girls) below 14 years of age.
2.Preventing unwanted pregnencies and preventing sexually transmitting diseases
3.Promoting delayed marriages for girls
4.Reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 100 live births
5.Achieving universal immunisation of children against all vaccine preventable diseases
Aims/Objectives of National Population Policy 2000
(a) Imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age. (b) Reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
(c) Achieving universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable diseases.
(d) Promoting delayed marriage for girls.
(e) Making family welfare a people centered programme.
(f) Protection of adolescent girls from unwanted pregnancies.
(g) Protection of adolescents from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and educating them about the risks of unprotected sex.
(h) Making contraceptive services accessible, and affordable.
(i) Providing food supplement and nutritional services.
(j) Strengthening legal measures to prevent child marriage.