Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme 2026 - Wedding Kits for Newly Married Couples

Odisha government runs Nai Pahal Scheme under the National Health Mission (NHM) to give wedding kits to newly married couples. The scheme is part of the state's population control measures and works to motivate young couples to adopt proper family planning. This article explains the complete details of Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme.

Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme aims to raise awareness about the need of adopting temporary and permanent methods of family planning by young couples. Under the scheme, the state government gifts newlyweds a wedding kit that includes a booklet on methods and benefits of family planning, a marriage registration form, condoms, and oral and emergency contraceptives. The kit also carries a pregnancy testing kit and grooming items like towels, comb, bindi, nail cutter, and mirror.

Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme 2026

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are entrusted with the task of distributing the kits to newly wed couples. ASHAs are trained to make sure that new couples are properly encouraged to adopt family planning methods through Nai Pahal Scheme. Odisha is the first state in the country to launch the scheme despite having a low total fertility rate (TFR). TFR, the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, stands at 1.8 in Odisha against the national average of two.

Items in Wedding Kit under Nai Pahal Scheme

The wedding kit given to newly married couples under Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme contains the following items:

• A booklet on benefits of family planning, a marriage registration form, condoms, oral contraceptive pills and emergency contraceptive pills
• A home pregnancy testing kit along with a bride grooming kit that includes comb, bindi, nail cutter, mirror, handkerchief and towel

ASHAs visit the houses where the wedding is taking place and gift the kit. They, besides briefing the newly weds about the spacing and limiting methods, also keep a close watch on the benefit of the kit. For this purpose, ASHAs get incentives.

Along with the contact details of ASHA, ANM and local health workers, the kit may carry a wedding congratulatory message from the Chief Minister. The Health department has also planned to strengthen delivery of new injectable contraceptives to eligible couples and roll out family planning counselling and contraceptive services in all functional urban primary health centres.

Highlights of Odisha Nai Pahal Scheme

For more details on Odisha health schemes, check the Ama Clinic Yojana and Anmol Yojana Odisha guide and the full Odisha government schemes list.

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