Question

What are the significant features of the National Population Policy 2000?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age, reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births, achieving universal immunization of children against all vaccine-preventable diseases, promoting delayed marriage for girls and making family welfare a people-centered programmer 200 has put special emphasis on the adolescent population.

iii) Protecting adolescents from unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases, and educating them about the risks of unprotected sex

iv)  Making contraceptive services accessible and affordable, providing food supplements, nutritional services, strengthening legal measures to prevent child marriage.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The salient features of National Population Policy 2000 include:

• Providing food services, nutritional foods
• Providing free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age
• Emphasizes adolescent population
• Providing sex education to adolescents with an aim to reduce unwanted pregnancies and transmission of STDs.
• Reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births, vaccinating children’s
• Strengthening legal measures to stop child marriage, making contraceptives obtainable and affordable

• Discouraging early marriage for girls and making family welfare a people-centred subject.