- The 1976 policy focused on lowering the fertility rate, promoting delayed marriages, and emphasized family planning, including coercive measures like compulsory sterilization in certain states, which later led to public backlash. - A new National Population Policy (NPP 2000) was formulated later, which adopted a more voluntary and rights-based approach.
First comprehensive population policy was announced by Government of India on :
Asked in HPPSC HPAS Prelims 2023 · Topic: India: Population (National Population Policy, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health Programs)
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- The immediate objective of National Population Policy 2000 is to :
- The long term objective of population policy 2000 is to achieve stable population. During which of the following years this objective is targetted to be achieved ?
- Which of the following population policies decided the minimum marriage age as 21 years for males and 18 years for females?
- Which of the following statement/s is/are correct about goals to be achieved under the National Population Policy, 2000 ? (a) Reduce dropouts at the primary and secondary school levels to below 30 percent for both boys and girls. (b) Reduce infant mortality rate to below 20 per 1000 live births. (c) Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 1,00,000 live births. (d) Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
- Consider the following statements about the National Population Register (NPR):
- Fill up the blanks : National population policy adopted in 2000 with a view to encourage ________ and aim at stabilizing the population by __________.
- Fill in the blanks India has been recognised as the ______ country in the world to officially adopt Family Planning Programme in ______ .
- Long-term objective of the National Population Policy 2000 is to achieve a stable population by