Question

What are the objectives of National Population Policy 2000?
A. Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 percent 1000 live births.
B. Reduce maternal mortality rate to below 100 percent 10,000 live births.
C. Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy.
D. All of these

Answer 1

Hint: You have to opt the correct option from the given options. In order to answer this you must have prior knowledge about the National Population policy 2000. Continually build the meaning of the sentences then choose the right one.

Complete answer:
- Option A) Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 percent 1000 live births. :- It is the correct option as it is the mentioned objective in National Population Policy.
- Option B) Reduce maternal mortality rate to below 100 percent 10,000 live births. :- It is the incorrect option as it is not mentioned in National Population Policy.
- Option C) Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths, marriage and pregnancy. :- It is the incorrect option as it is not mentioned in National Population Policy.
- Option D) All of these :- It is the incorrect option as all the options given above are not mentioned in National Population Policy.

Hence, option A is the correct choice to be opted.

Note:
Some facts about NPP:
-National Population Policy (NPP 2000) provides a policy framework for imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age, reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 percent thousand live births, achieving universal immunisation of children against all vaccine preventable diseases, promoting delayed marriage for girls, and making family welfare a people centered programme.
-NPP was initiated by the government for improving healthcare quality and coverage, measuring and monitoring the delivery of family welfare programmes. So as to enable the increasingly literate and aware families to achieve their reproductive goals and the country to achieve rapid population stabilisation.