In The Family planning’ was renamed as ‘family welfare”. The Government of India adopted the UNPF (United Nations Population Fund) guideline of delaying the -first child and spacing the subsequent birth(s). The Primary health Centres that are engaged in family planning programmes, perform two specific functions: providing services to the people and disseminating information about these services in an effective manner in order to motivate the people to accept family planning.

The major objective of family planning is “To increase individual happiness and to enhance health of the society”. National Population Policy 2000 [NPP-2000]: is the latest in the series. It reaffirms the commitment of the government towards administering family planning services. The object of NPP-2000 is to bring the total fertility rate (TFR) to replacement levels by 2010. It contains the goals and the target to be achieved by 2010 as given below.

1. Reduce infant mortality rate. 

2. Reduce maternal mortality rate. 

3. Achieve universal immunisation of children against all preventable diseases. 

4. Achieve institutional deliveries by trained persons. 

5. Achieve 100% registration of births, deaths, marriages, and pregnancy. 

6. Prevention and control of communicable diseases. 

7. Promote vigorously small family norms to achieve TIoL 

8. Contain the spread of AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome). 

9. Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child health services, supplies, and infrastructure.

10. Make school education up to age 14 free and, compulsory and reduce drop-outs at primary and secondary school levels. 

11. Achieve universal access to information/counseling and services for fertility regulation and contraception. 

12. To take appropriate steps to make family welfare programme a people-centred programme.