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Directorate of Family Welfare

The National Family Welfare Programme is being implemented in Tamil Nadu since 1956 purely on voluntary basis. It is viewed and implemented as people's programme aimed to raise the Standard of living of the people and improve the Maternal and Child Health and thereby reduce population growth. Tamil Nadu now follows the  "Community Needs Assessment Approach" to implement the Family Welfare And Maternity Child Health programmes in the State.

Family Welfare Programme is intended to provide maternal and child health care and thereby to bring down the growth rate of population. It is also intended to avoid higher order birth (i.e. birth of more than two children in a family) and prevention of female infanticide. This is a countrywide programme implemented with the 100% financial assistance from Government of India.

Indicators and Goals:

The demographic scenario of Tamil Nadu for 2009 is furnished below :

      1. Crude Birth Rate                              15.8/1000 population
      2. Crude Death Rate                            7.2/1000 population
      3. Infant Mortality Rate                      35/1000 live births
      4. Maternal Mortality Ratio                 0.9/1000 Deliveries
      5. Natural Growth Rate                       0.86 percent

Health and Family Welfare Department - Government of Tamil Nadu is attempting to achieve the following demographic goals in Tamil Nadu by the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan i.e., as on March 31, 2012.

1.

Institutional Deliveries

100%

2.

Infant Morality Rate

20/1000 Live Births
3. Crude Birth Rate 14/1000 population
4. Total Fertility Rate 1.4

5.

Maternal Mortality Ratio

45/100000 Live Births

State Commission on Population:

The Government of Tamil Nadu have constituted "State Commission on Population" under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The State Commission on Population has been constituted to oversee and review "National Population Policy 2007" in the State.