Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 41 : National Policy for Children

National Plan of Action for Children, 2005

Women and Child Development has prepared a National Plan of. Action for Children 2005 after harmonizing the goals for children set in the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children held in 2002 and the monitor able targets set in the Tenth Five Year Plan, and goals for children in related Ministries / Departments. The Action Plan has been prepared in consultation with concerned Ministries and Departments, States/Union territory Governments, Non Governmental Organizations and experts The National Plan of Action includes goals, objectives, strategies and activities for improving nutritional status of children, reducing IMR and MMR, increasing enrolment ratio and reducing dropout rates, Universalization of primary education, increasing coverage for immunization etc. The Prime Minister's Office is quarterly monitoring the National Plan of Action for Children 2005 on the basis of eight parameters. These are as under

• Reduce IMR to below 30 per 1000 live births by 2010
• Reduce Child Mortality Rate to below 31 per 1000 live births by 2010.
• To reduce Maternal Mortality Rate to below 100 per 100,000 live births by 2010.
• Universal equitable access and use of safe drinking water and improved access to sanitary means of excreta disposal by 2010
• 100% rural population to have access to basic sanitation by 2012
• To eliminate child marriages by 2010
• To eliminate disability due to poliomyelitis by 2007
• To reduce the proportion of infants infected with HIV by 20 percent by 2007 and by 50 percent by 2010, by ensuring that 80 per cent of pregnant women have access to ante natal care, and 95 per cent of men and women aged 15-24 have access to care, counseling and other HIV and prevention services.