Question.
What are the significant features of the National Population Policy 2000?
( Chapter - 6 Population, Cass 9 NCERT Contemporary India -I )
Answer.
Following are the salient features of the National Population Policy (NPP) 2000:
The National Population Policy (NPP) provides for free and compulsory schooling till the age of 14.
It aims to reduce the infant mortality rate to less than 30 per 1000 live births.
Aims to achieve universal immunization of children to prevent all vaccine-preventable diseases.
Promote late marriage of girls and strengthen legal measures to prevent child marriage.
Making family welfare schemes people-centric.
The National Population Policy, for the first time, recognized adolescents as one of the major segments of the population and prioritized the need for greater attention.
It emphasizes providing nutritional requirements to the adolescent population.
The National Population Policy 2000 encourages the education of adolescents about unsafe sex, and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and it prioritizes the need to make contraceptive services accessible and affordable.
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