Read the passage given below and answer the following question . National Socio-Demographic Goals for 2010 1.Address the unmet needs for basic reproductive and child
health services, supplies and infrastructure.
2. Make school education up to the age of 14 years free and compulsory,
and reduce dropouts at primary and secondary school levels to below 20
per cent for both boys and girls.
3. Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births.
4. Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100,000 live births.
5. Achieve universal immunization of children against all vaccine preventable
diseases.
6. Promote delayed marriage for girls, not earlier than age 18 and preferably
after 20 years of age.
7. Achieve 80 per cent institutional deliveries and 100 per cent deliveries by
trained persons.
8. Achieve universal access to information/counselling, and services for fertility
regulation and contraception with a wide basket of choices.
9.Achieve 100 per cent registration of births, deaths, marriage and
pregnancy.
10. Contain the spread of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and
promote greater integration between the management of reproductive
tract infections (RTI) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the National
AIDS Control Organisation.
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