The National Population Policy of 2000 is a policy framework implemented by the Government of India. It aims to address the challenges and issues related to population growth and family planning in the country.
It aims to achieve sustainable development by promoting responsible and planned parenthood. The policy emphasizes the importance of providing accessible and affordable reproductive healthcare services.
It also highlights the importance of empowering women and ensuring the well-being of communities.
Objectives of NPP 2000
The NPP’s primary goal is to handle unmet healthcare infrastructure, people, and contraception demands.
Additionally, it seeks to offer integrated services for primary reproductive and pediatric healthcare.
By adopting cross-sectoral working strategies, the medium-term goal is to raise the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) to replacement levels (TFR of 2.1) by 2010.
The long-term goal is to stabilize the population by 2045 at a level that satisfies the demands of societal development, environmental preservation, and sustainable economic growth.
Salient Features of NPP 2000
To reap the most significant advantages from reproductive health services, the NPP reinforces the government’s goal, which promotes educated, voluntary decision-making and public acceptance.
It ensures that education is free and mandatory for all children until age 14 while also lowering the failure rates for both males and females.
It is lowering the nation’s infant mortality rate (IMR) to under 30 per 1000 live births.
Bringing down the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) to less than 100 per 10,000 live births
It is achieving the widespread immunization of all infants against illnesses that vaccines can prevent.
It encourages females to postpone marriage (preferably before 18 years and above 20).
It is achieving 100% qualified individual deliveries and 80% institutional deliveries.
It is achieving 100% recording of births, funerals, marriages, and pregnancies.
It provides services for regulating fertility and contraception with various options and universal access to knowledge and guidance.
It is reducing AIDS transmission and fostering improved communication between the National AIDS Control Organization and the treatment of sexually transmitted illnesses (STI) and reproductive tract infections (RTI) (NACO).
It regulates and prevents communicable illnesses.
AYUSH, or systems of Indian medicine, integration in reproductive and infant health care.
It is actively promoting the preference for limited families.
It is bringing about the convergence of all related social welfare programs so that family planning and assistance becomes a program focused on the needs of the individual.
