The goals of the National Population Policy 2000 are to:
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 drop outs at primary and
secondary school levels to below 20 per cent 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. Encourage
marriage of girls after 18 years of age.
vii. Achieve 80 per
cent institutional deliveries and 100 per cent deliveries by trained persons.
viii.
Achieve universal access to information/counselling and services
for fertility regulation and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
ix. Achieve 100 per
cent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancies.
x. Contain the
spread of AIDS and promote greater integration between the management of
reproductive tract infections (RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) and
the National AIDS Control Organization.
xi. Prevent and
control communicable diseases.
xii. Integrate
Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) in the provision of reproductive and Child
Health Services and in reaching out to the households.
xiii.
Promote vigorously the small family norm to achieve replacement
levels of TFR.
xiv. Bring about
convergence in implementation of related social sector programmes so that
family welfare becomes a people –centred programme.
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