Mission Parivar Vikas to be launched to push contraceptive use
The government will soon launch Mission
Parivar Vikas to improve family planning services in seven states where the
combined total fertility rate (TFR), or the number of children a woman has in
her lifetime) constitutes 44% of the country’s population.
Key facts:- The main objective of ‘Mission
Parivas Vikas is to accelerate access to high quality family planning
choices based on information, reliable services and supplies within a
rights-based framework.
- The Union ministry of health and
family welfare will launch the programme in 145 high-focus districts of
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand
and Assam.
- These districts were identified
based on their total fertility rate and sterilization performance among
other measures taken for family planning, for immediate, special and
accelerated efforts.
- The target of the government is to
reach the replacement level fertility goals of 2.1 by the year 2025.
- The key strategic focus of this
initiative will be on improving access to contraceptives through
delivering assured services, dovetailing with new promotional schemes,
ensuring commodity security, building capacity (service providers), creating
an enabling environment along with close monitoring and implementation.
Why this is necessary?
Recent government data shows that these 145
districts have TFR of more than or equal to 3 (56% of the 261 districts in the
7 High Focus States), and are home to 28% of India’s population, which is about
33 crore. These states are home to 22% of India’s protected couples and 40% of
India’s couples with unmet contraceptive needs.
These districts have a substantial impact on
maternal and child health indicators, as about 25-30% of maternal deaths and
50% of infant deaths occur in these districts alone. Moreover, 115 of these
districts (79%) have high percentage of adolescent mothers.
