features of NPP 2000

Dear Student,

The National Population Policy, 2000 (NPP 2000) has the following features:

  • It affirms the commitment of government towards voluntary and informed choice and consent of citizens while availing of reproductive health care services.
  • Target free approach in administering family planning services. 
  • It provides a policy framework for advancing goals and prioritizing strategies during the next decade, to meet the reproductive and child health needs of the people of India, and to achieve net replacement levels (TFR) by 2010. 
  • It is based upon the need to simultaneously address issues of child survival, maternal health, and contraception, while increasing outreach and coverage of a comprehensive package of reproductive and child heath services by government, industry and the voluntary non-government sector, working in partnership.

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