The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) sponsored district level Rapid Household Surveys, which have facilitated the availability of crucial and basic RCH indicators for all the 504 districts as per the 1991 Census of India. The surveys were conducted all over India during 1998-99 to elicit basic district level RCH indicators for 504 districts as of 1991 census. Proper planning, implementation and monitoring of RCH interventions at the district and sub-district levels in a resource-constrained regime certainly needs prioritization of districts in terms of the assessed needs of RCH services duly emphasized in the NPP-2000 document. Nevertheless, as reproductive health status is multi-dimensional, it is.
