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What were the salient features of the India’s Population Policy (2000)? How far its goals have been achieved?

  • UPSC 2020
  • 20 marks
  • Population Dynamics

The National Population Policy 2000 was framed after two decisive events: the discrediting of coercion by the Emergency sterilisation drive, and the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994), which redefined population policy as reproductive health and rights. NPP 2000 accordingly treated stabilisation as a by-product of health and education rather than a target…

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  • How far, and by what means
  • The unresolved contradiction
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