Explanation
India was the first country in the world to have launched a National Programme for Family Planning in 1952.
With its historic initiation in 1952, the Family Planning Programme has undergone transformation in terms of policy and actual programme implementation. There occurred a gradual shift from clinical approach to the reproductive child health approach and further, the National Population Policy (NPP) in 2000 brought a holistic and a target free approach which helped
in the reduction of fertility
