Question

Name the programmes that have been initiated in India. In which ways do these programmes help people.

Answer 1

Programmes initiated in India

1. Family Planning Programme: Initiated nationally in 1951 to promote planned families and responsible birth control.

2. Reproductive and Child Health Care (RCH) programmes: Designed to create awareness and provide reproductive and maternal and child health services.

How these programmes help

1. Provide information about reproductive health, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.
2. Offer medical care related to pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, infertility, menstrual problems and STDs.
3. Promote maternal and postnatal care, child immunisation and healthier families.
4. Support research and improved health-care strategies, while restricting misuse of prenatal testing for sex determination.

These programmes combine education and health services to support a safer and healthier reproductive life.