The Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh [JSK]/National Population Stabilisation Fund [NPSF] has adopted the following strategies towards population Stabilization.
1. The Prerna strategy (Responsible Parenthood Practices) of Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh (JSK) promotes population stabilization by encouraging delayed marriage (after the legal age) among girls, by rewarding the women who marry after the legal age and ensure proper spacing in the birth of their children. Total number of couples awarded under this scheme from 2008 till date are 662.
2. The Santushti strategy provides private sector gynaecologists and vasectomy surgeons, an opportunity to conduct sterilization operations in Public Private Partnership (PPP). Under this scheme, 84 private nursing homes working with JSK have carried out 4984 sterilizations during the year 2009-10.
3. The JSK Call Centre on Reproductive, Family Planning and Child Health provides authentic information on issues related to family planning, reproductive and child health. Call Centre is getting on an average 300 calls daily. It has received approximately 1,75,000 calls and addressed 2,59,113 queries from the high fertility states of UP, Bihar, MP and Rajasthan.
4. JSK regularly undertakes advocacy on the issue with stakeholders such as the corporates, national media, adolescents and students from high secondary schools, NGOs and the community in the high fertility states.
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