Minimum Needs Programme (India)

The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was introduced in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974–78), to provide certain basic minimum needs and improve the living standards of people. It aims at "social and economic development of the community, particularly the underprivileged and undereserved population".It also promoted equality as from now poor will be able to get basic needs.
Components.
The programme includes the following components:
Principles.
Two basic principles are observed during the implementation of Minimum Needs Programme:
Objectives.
Rural health.
The objectives to be achieved by the end of the Eighth Five Year Plan are:
The establishment of peripheral health centres, their up gradation also come under MNP.