In the year 2000, the Government of India passed the National Population Policy (NPP) 2000. It emphasized the need for promotion of contraceptives once again but as a matter of choice, and in a target free environment. By this time planners had realized that target oriented approach leads to poor quality performance and cooking up of statistical data. It does not help. Those who want to limit family size are doing this anyway. Development aspirations have made people quite conscious about the need for limiting family size. The programme must particularly focus on meeting the unmet needs, i.e., providing services to those who do not want more children but have not found a suitable method. They must be provided the required services. To quote:

The National Population Policy, 2000 (NPP 2000) affirms the commitment of government towards voluntary and informed choice and consent of citizens while availing of reproductive health care services, and continuation of the target free approach in administering family planning services. The NPP 2000 provides a policy framework for advancing goals and prioritizing strategies during the next decade, to meet the reproductive and child health needs of the people of India, and to achieve net replacement levels (TFR) by 2010. It is based upon the need to simultaneously address issues of child survival, maternal health, and contraception, while increasing outreach and coverage of a comprehensive package of reproductive and child heath services by government, industry and the voluntary non-government sector, working in partnership.