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    The document outlines India's national population policy. It notes that India's population reached 1 billion in 2000 and is projected to become the world's most populous country by 2045. The policy aims to stabilize population growth through measures like increasing access to healthcare and education to reduce fertility rates, infant and maternal mortality. Its goals include achieving replacement level fertility, universal education and immunization, and increasing institutional deliveries by 2010.

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    The document outlines India's national population policy. It notes that India's population reached 1 billion in 2000 and is projected to become the world's most populous country by 2045. The policy aims to stabilize population growth through measures like increasing access to healthcare and education to reduce fertility rates, infant and maternal mortality. Its goals include achieving replacement level fertility, universal education and immunization, and increasing institutional deliveries by 2010.

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    NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY

    Population Policy
    • Measures formulated by a range of social institution
    including government which may influence the size,
    distribution or composition of human population.
    • A deliberate effort by a national government to
    influence the demographic variable like fertility,
    mortality and migration.
    Need for Population Policy in India
    • 11th may, 2000 – India had 1 billion population (100 crores) – 16% of

    world population on 2.4% globes land area.

    • By current trend, India will become most populous country in the world

    by 2045.

    • Global population: Increased 3 fold during the last century (from 2 to 6

    billion)

    • India population: Increased 5 times ( from 238 million to 1.25 billion)

    during the same period.

    • Stabilizing population is an essential requirement for promoting

    sustainable development with more equitable distribution.


    CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF OVER POPULATION
    • CAUSES
    – Early marriage and universal marriage system

    – Poverty and illiteracy

    – Age old cultural norm

    – Illegal migration

    • EFFECTS
    – Unemployment

    – Manpower utilization

    – Pressure on infrastructure

    – Resource utilization

    – Decrease production and increase costs


    National Population Policy
    • April 1976- First National population policy
    – Legal minimum age of marriage from 15 to 18 years for female and 18
    to 21 years for male.

    • National population policy 2000 ( latest)


    – Apart from fertility and mortality rate it deals with :-
    a) Women education

    b) Improved health and nutrition

    c) Child survival and health

    d) The unmet need of family welfare services.

    e) Planned parenthood.

    f) Health care of underserved population group.


    Objective of NPP 2000
    •  To address the unmet needs for contraception, healthcare infrastructure, and
    health personnel, and to provide integrated service delivery for basic
    reproductive and child healthcare
    • IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE
    – To improve health services.

    • MEDIUM TERM OBJECTIVE

    – To bring TFR to replacement level.


    • LONG TERM OBJECTIVE

    – To achieve stable population by 2045 with


    1. Suitable economic growth

    2. Social development

    3. Environment protection
    National Socio-Demographic Goals for 2010

    • Address unmet needs for basic RCH services.


    • School education up to age 14 years free and
    compulsory and reduce drop outs to < 20%.
    • Reduce IMR to <30/1000 live births.
    • Reduce maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to < 100 per
    100000 live births.
    • Achieve universal immunisation of children.
    • Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier
    than age 18 and preferably after 20 years of age.
    • Achieve 80% institutional deliveries and 100%
    deliveries by trained persons.
    • Achieve universal access to information/
    counselling and services for fertility regulation
    and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
    • Achieve 100% registration of births, deaths, marriage and

    pregnancy.

    • Promote greater integration between the management of AIDS

    and STD.

    • Prevention and control of communicable diseases.

    • Integration of Indian system of medicine in RCH services.

    • Promote small family norm to achieve replacement levels of TFR.

    • Implementation of related social sector programmes so that

    family welfare becomes a people centres programme.


    Current population (as of Tuesday, January 21, 2020)

    1,388,254,497
    One billion three hundred eighty-eight million two hundred fifty-four
    thousand four hundred and ninety-seven

    Population rank

    2 (17.87% of world population)

    The population of India will be increasing by 47,852 persons daily in 2020.

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