Implementation of Family Planning Policy

• The Government has been implementing the Family Planning programme in line with the policy framework of population stabilization as envisaged in the National Population Policy (NPP-2000), by creating a robust service delivery and demand-side mechanism to address the unmet needs for family planning.
• The programme received a further boost through holistic and comprehensive planning with the advent of the National Health Mission (NHM) in 2005.
• The National Health Policy (NHP) 2017 also provides policy guidance and sets out indicative, quantitative goals and objectives for population stabilization.

• The Government has also launched Mission Parivar Vikas in 146 high fertility districts of seven high focus states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam).

Mission Parivar Vikas:

• The Government has launched Mission Parivar Vikas in 2017 for substantially increasing access to contraceptives and family planning services in146 high fertility districts with TFR of 3 and above in seven high focus states.
• Its main focus is on improving access to contraceptives through promotional schemes, awareness generation activities, capacity building and intensive monitoring.
• The main objective of the Mission Parivar Vikas family planning initiative is to bring down the Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 by the year 2025.

National Population Policy (NPP-2000):

• The National Population Policy was launched by the government of India with a broad aim of assisting the citizens with reproductive health care services that help the citizens in making voluntary and informed choices on family planning.
• It aimed to achieve net replacement levels of TFR by 2010.
• It focuses on meeting reproductive health, maternal health, child survival, and maternal health needs of India.
• It also aims to reach a stable population by the year 2045.

Objectives of NPP-2000:

• To provide for basic reproductive and child health care services, and infrastructure in India.
• To provide advisory, informative healthcare personnel, contraception needs and supplies in the country.

As a result of the Government’s initiatives for controlling the Population:

• The TFR of the country has declined from 2.9 in 2005 to 2.2 in 2018 (SRS)
• 28 out of 36 States/UTs have already achieved the replacement level fertility of 2.1 or less
• The Crude Birth Rate (CBR) has declined from 23.8 in 2005 to 20.0 in 2018 (SRS)
• The Decadal growth rate has declined from 21.54% in 1990-2000 to 17.64% during 2001-11
• India’s Wanted Fertility Rate has declined from 1.9 in NFHS III to 1.8 in NFHS IV.