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

Solution:

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