The Government has been implementing the National Family Planning Program which provides voluntary and informed choices to the beneficiaries through a target free approach with the objective of checking population increase in the country.

A National Population Policy has been formulated in the year 2000 with the long-term objective of attaining population stabilisation by 2045.

Various initiatives have been taken under the National Family Planning Program providing broad range of services mentioned as follows:

1. New Contraceptive Choices: The current contraceptive basket comprising of Condoms, combined oral contraceptive pills, emergency contraceptive pills, Intrauterine contraceptive uterine device (IUCD) and sterilization has been expanded with inclusion of two new contraceptives- Injectable contraceptive (Antara programme) and Centchroman (Chhaya)
2. Post-partum Intrauterine contraceptive device(PPIUCD) incentive scheme under which PPIUCD services are provided post delivery.
3. Compensation scheme for sterilization acceptors which provides compensation for loss of wages to the beneficiary and also to the service provider and team for conducting sterilisation. 
4. National Family Planning Indemnity Scheme (NFPIS) under which clients are compensated in the eventualities of death, complication and failure following sterilization operations. 
5. Family Planning Logistics Management Information System (FP-LMIS): dedicated software has been launched to ensure smooth forecasting, procurement and distribution of family planning commodities across all the levels of health facilities.
6. Mission ParivarVikas: Mission ParivarVikas has been introduced for substantially increasing access to contraceptives and family planning services in seven high

focus states having TFR of more than 3 namely Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam..

7. Scheme for Home Delivery of contraceptives by ASHAs at doorstep of beneficiaries has been taken up.
8. Scheme for provision of Pregnancy Testing Kits in the drug kits of ASHA for use in communities.

The National Family Planning Programme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is working closely with the states and UTs to provide technical support and guidance under overall tenets of the National Population Policy 2000 and oversees its implementation.

The following schemes provide for involvement of private partnerships for provisioning of Family Planning services:

1. Accreditation/ Empanelment of private facilities/providers: The private facilities/providers are accredited/ empanelled through State/District Quality Indemnity sub committee for provision of free sterilization services. The accredited facilities are also provided indemnity coverage.

2. Clinical Outreach Teams (COT) Scheme provides for family planning services through mobile teams from accredited organizations in far-flung, underserved and geographically difficult areas in the seven Mission ParivarVikas States namely Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam.

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha here today.

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