What are the significant features of the National Population Policy 2000?
The National Population Policy 2000 provides a policy framework for:
→ 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 immunisation of children against all vaccine-preventable diseases
→ Promoting delayed marriage and child bearing
→ Making family welfare a people-centred programme
→ Providing nutritional services and food supplements to adolescents
→ Protecting adolescents from unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases, and educating them about the risks of unprotected sex
→ Making contraceptive services accessible and affordable
