According to Census 2011, 53 per cent of the country's

population is reproductive age group (15- 49 years) while one of five persons in the country is an adolescent (10-19 years) and every third is a young person (15-24 years).

"There is a collective responsibility on the government, civil society and other stakeholders to work together to plan adequate and suitable opportunities to meet their needs and aspirations and address the health and well-being of this population," she said.

PFI said that at the London Summit 2012, India committed to provide family planning services to an additional 48 million new users by 2020.

To fulfill our FP-2020 commitments and meet the responsibility towards the large young population, investments in health and family planning need to be proportionately increased.

"According to the FP-2020 progress report 2015-16, India has only reached 7.7 million additional users, by July 2016.

Three million additional users have been reached last year, in contrast to 1.5 million additional users reached, each for the first three years.

"The accelerated efforts of the government towards universal access to family planning are also evident in its introduction of three new spacing methods of contraception in the family planning programme... in 2015, offering greater choice and autonomy to the users of family planning," she said.

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