Q- What are the significant features of the National Population Policy 2000?
Answer- The significant features of the National Population Policy 2000 are as follows:
1. Reducing Infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
2. Achieving universal immunisation of children against all vaccine-preventable diseases.
3. Imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age.
4. Promoting delayed marriages and child bearing.
5. Making family welfare a people centred-programme.
6. Making contraceptive services accessible and affordable.
7. Providing nutritional services and food supplements to adolescents.
8. Protecting adolescents from unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases, and educating them about the risks of unprotected sex.