BOMBAY & MADRAS POP.

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The Fifth (Bombay and Madras) Population Project will support the Government's goal of improving the availability and quality of family welfare services to poor urban families. In order to achieve this goal the project comprises several components; a service delivery expansion component comprising the construction, furnishing, equipping and staffing of new health posts (HP), and the rehabilitation/extension of existing facilities to create new HPs; and a training component to improve the quality of service provided by family welfare workers in both cities. To improve management of the family welfare program; a central coordinating office in the Bombay Public Health Department and three family health bureaux are to be created; and, in Tamil Nadu by strengthening the State and Madras city family welfare bureaux. A final component is to increase the involvement of private voluntary organizations and private medical practitioners in the family welfare program.