THE MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE(DR. ANBUMANI RAMADOSS)
(a) & (b) Since 1st April, 1994 Government of India has adopted Target Free Approach
(TFA) all over India, focusing on decentralized participatory planning.As such no targets
are fixed for family welfare programme.
(c)&(d) As per Sample Registration System, Office of Registrar General India,the Total
Fertility Rate (TFR) has declined from 3.2 in the year 2000 to 2.9 in 2004 at the National
Level.The State wise position TFR during the period is at annexure I.
The average annual population growth rate has declined from 2.14 in 1981-91 to 1.93 in
1991-2001. The State-wise decennial population growth rate and annual Population
Growth Rate for the period as per Census, Office of Registrar General, India is at annexure II.
(e)& (f) The Census operations and other population related rates are worked out by Office
of Registrar General India. On the basis of published data of Office RGI, proportion and growth
rate of population by religious communities is at annexure III.
(g) & (h) The National Family Welfare Programme is voluntary in nature, which enables a couple
to adopt the family planning method, best suited to them according to their choice and of their
own volition.Assistance is given to the States for maintenance of family welfare infrastructure
units, supply of drugs, contraceptives and extending the maternal and child health care services.
In addition, the Government of India gives support to States/UTs Government for carrying out
male and female sterilization
(i) The Government of India launched National Rural Health Mission on 12th April 2005 throughout
the country, with special emphasis on 18 States i.e. the States of Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal
Pradesh, 8 EAG States (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Orissa, Uttaranchal,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand) and 8 North East States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura). The Mission aims at provision of comprehensive
and integrated primary healthcare to the people, especially to the rural poor, women and children.
The approach of the Government is to improve availability of integrated primary healthcare services
to the people as also to improve healthcare seeking behaviour of people for the range of maternal
and child healthcare services that would logically lead to adoption of better contraceptive practices.
The new initiatives under NRHM/RCH II would provide the right impetus for improving the
health and family services which would bring about significant improvements in demographic
status of high fertility states.National Population Policy 2000 provides a frame work for
advancing goals and prioritizing strategies to meet reproductive and child health needs of
the population and to achieve replacement level TFR by 2010.
