Question

what was the significant feature of national population policy of 2000

Answer 1

National Population Policy was implemented in year 1952 but it was adopted in the year 2000. Its main objective are to:
1. Promote the economic and social development of the country and improve the quality of life of people.
2. To enhance their well being and to provide them opportunity and choices to become productive assets in society.
3. Death rate is to be reduced. Family planning and birth control measures are to be used.
The National Population Policy NPP aims at stabilizing population by 2045. It Lays emphasis on economic growth, social development and environmental protection. Certain measures which are to be adopted for it are:
1. Raising the age of marriage.
2. Making School Education upto age of 14 years free and compulsory.
3. Reducing dropouts at primary and secondary level..
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Answer 2

The National Population Policy 2000 provides a policy framework for:-

(i) Imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age

(ii) Reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births

(iii) Achieving universal immunisation of children against all vaccine-preventable diseases

(iv) Promoting delayed marriage and child bearing

(v) Making family welfare a people-centred programme

(vi) Providing nutritional services and food supplements to adolescents

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

(viii) Making contraceptive services accessible and affordable