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The NPP 2000 provides a policy framework for imparting free and compulsory school education up to 10 years of age.
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The NPP 2000
provides a policy framework for imparting free and compulsory school education up to 14 years of age,
reducing infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births, achieving universal immunization of children against all vaccine-preventable diseases, promoting delayed marriage for girls, and making family welfare a people-centered programme.
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Besides nutritional requirements, the policy puts greater emphasis on other
important needs of adolescents including protection from unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- It called for programs that aim towards encouraging delayed marriage and child-bearing , educating adolescents about the risks of unprotected sex, making contraceptive services accessible and affordable, providing food supplements, and nutritional services, and strengthening legal measures to prevent child marriage.
Statement:
The NPP 2000 provides a policy framework for imparting free and compulsory school education up to 10 years of age.
So, the statement is false.
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