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What is National Population Policy? What decisions have been taken to achieve the goal of National Population Policy of 2000?                                                                                             [NCERT; NCT 2006]

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The main objectives of India's National Population Policy are:

(a) To improve the quality of life of the people. Planning of families would improve individual health and welfare.

(b) The Family Planning Programme would promote responsible and planned parenthood.

(c) National Population Policy provides free and compulsory school education upto 14 years of age and reducing drop-outs at primary and secondary levels.

(d) Reducing infant mortality rate to 30 per thousand births.

(e) Promoting delayed marriage for girls not earlier than 18 years and preferably after 20.

(f) Preventing and controlling diseases, immunising all children against all vaccine preventable diseases.

(g) Promoting 'small family' norm. Providing incentives to adopt small family - to adopt 2 children norm. To achieve stable population by 2045.