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NATIONAL
POPULATION
POLICY
BY ANTAREEP SARANIA
[Link]. Nursing 1st Year
DEFINITIONS
• Population: A Population is a distinct group of
individuals with shared citizenship, identity and
characteristics.
• Policy: A set of ideas or a plan of what to do in a
particular situation that has been agreed to
officially by a group of people, a business
• National Population Policy: It is a comprehensive
framework adopted by the government to address
various aspects of population dynamics.
HISTORICAL GENESIS OF NPP
• When do you think the NPP was introduced ??
It was drafted, but
was never
discussed or
adopted.
A draft of NPP was
prepared by expert
group headed by Dr.
M.S. Swaminathan,
however it could not
be placed before
parliament due to
political reasons.
Another draft of NPP
was finalized, which
was discussed in the
cabinet in 19th
November 1999. The
suggestions were
incorporated and
final draft was
placed before
parliament.
It was adopted by
the Government of
India on 15th
February, 2000.
OBJECTIVES OF NPP 2000
• What objectives would you give if you were the policy makers ?
NATIONAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC
GOALS FOR 2010
Mothers – 3 Goals
Children – 3 Goals
Family Welfare – 8
Goals
NATIONAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC
GOALS FOR 2010
• Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive
and child health services, supplies and
infrastructure
• Make school education up to age 14 free and
compulsory, and reduce drop outs at primary and
secondary school levels to below 20 percent for
both boys and girls.
NATIONAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC
GOALS FOR 2010
§ Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100,000 live
births.
§ Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine
preventable diseases.
§ Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and
preferably after 20 years of age.
NATIONAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC
GOALS FOR 2010
§ Achieve 80 percent institutional deliveries and 100 percent
deliveries by trained persons.
§ Achieve universal access to information/counseling, and
services for fertility regulation and contraception with a
wide basket of choices.
§ Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths, marriage
and pregnancy.
§ Contain the spread of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(AIDS), and promote greater integration between the
management of reproductive tract infections (RTI) and
NATIONAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC
GOALS FOR 2010
§ Prevent and control communicable diseases.
§ Integrate Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) in the provision of
reproductive and child health services, and in reaching out to
households.
§ Promote vigorously the small family norm to achieve
replacement levels of TFR.
§ Bring about convergence in implementation of related social
sector programs so that family welfare becomes a people
centered programme.
STRATEGIC THEMES
Decentralised planning and programme implementation
Convergence of service delivery at village levels
Empowering women for improved health and nutrition
Child health and survival
Meeting the unmet needs for family welfare services in urban and rural areas
STRATEGIC THEMES
Meeting the unmet needs for family welfare services specially among urban slums,
tribal communities, hill area populations and displaced and migrant populations, and
adolescents, and securing increased participation of men in planned parenthood
Diverse health care providers
Collaboration with and commitments from non-government organisations and the
private sector
STRATEGIC THEMES
Mainstreaming Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy
Contraceptive technology and research on reproductive and child health
Contraceptive technology and research on reproductive and child health
Information, education, and communication
PROMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
MEASURES
Panchayats and Zila
Parishads will be rewarded
for exemplary performance
in universalizing the small
family norm, achieving
reduction in infant
mortality rate and
promoting literacy with
completion of primary
schooling.
PROMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
MEASURES
BSY run by the Department
of women and child
development, to promote
survival and care of girl
child.
PROMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
MEASURES
Family welfare linked
Health Insurance plan
Rub by Department of Rural
Development
PROMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
MEASURES
A revolving A wider and
Child care Facilities for
fund for income affordable
centres will be safe abortion
generation choice of
opened in rural will be
activities by contraceptives
and urban strengthened
Village level will be made
slums. and expanded.
SHG. accessible.
PROMOTIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL
MEASURES
Products and
Strict
services will be Soft loans to be
Increased enforcement of
made affordable provided to local
vocational Child marriage
through entrepreneurs
training Act and Prenatal
innovative social and ANMs at
schemes for girls Diagnostic
marketing village level
Techniques act
schemes
IMPLEMENTATION OF NPP 2000
• Implementation of Population policy 2000 is
monitored by National Commission on Population
(NCP)
• Can you tell me Who leads the NCP?
EMPHASIS OF NPP 2000
People-centred approach.
Decentralized planning and implementation through Panchayat and Nagar palinkas
Integrated and family planning package for health, MCH and family planning
Informed choice of contraceptives
Concerns for gender Issues
Focus on undeserved population groups and adolescents
Community Participation with increased Participation of men in planned family and parenthood.
IMPACT OF NPP 2000
• It was anticipated that if NPP 2000 was fully
implemented, population would be 1107 Million.
• The provisional population 1210 million of 2011
census was found to be higher.
Projection if the NPP is fully Implemented according to MoHFW
Year CBR IMR TFR
2002 23.0 50 2.6
2010 21.0 30 2.1
REALITY
2022 16.42 - -
2023 - 26.61 2.139
ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSE
• What do you think could be the roles in this
situation/event ?
Related Research Article
• The elimination of contraceptive acceptor targets and the evolution of
population policy in India by PETER J. DONALDSON
• In 1996 the government of India announced a new national population
policy that eliminated numerical targets for new contraceptive
acceptors.. The analysis is based on published and unpublished reports
on India's population policy and the family planning programme and
interviews with senior Indian and foreign officials and population
specialists.
• Five factors are identified as playing a role in the evolution from target
setting to a target-free policy: (1) the research of India's academics; (2)
the work of women's health advocates; (3) the support of officials in the
state bureaucracy who approved the target-free approach; (4) the
influence of the donors to India's family planning programme, especially
the World Bank; and (5) the International Conference on Population and
SUMMARY
CONCLUSION
• As Community Health Nurses, embracing the NPP’s
objectives equips us to contribute significantly to
the health and well-being of the population we
serve.
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