The socio-legal facets of reproductive and child health for tripura: A multidimensional analysis using nfhs-v

India being a signatory to the ICPD in 1994 implemented the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Programme in 1997 to achieve the targets set by the conference. In 2005, India again upgraded the programmeto RCH-II that becomes an ‘all in one’ design to cover reproductive, maternal, and child health, also covering both the demand and supply sides. Loaded with so much significance, it is imperative to study the health of the women (15-49 years) and child (0-5years) for a state like Tripura which is not a very homogeneous territory for easily providing standard health care services round-the-clock to all due to geographic location, hilly and difficult terrain having large number of ethnic groups. The present study attempts to estimate the relative position of the states of North East India in terms of Reproductive and Child Health deprivations using the multidimensional counting approach of Alkire and Foster (2011). The study covers a wide range of variables on reproductive, maternal and child health for the states of North East India and deals with inter-state as well as intra-state (rural-urban) disparity in RCH deprivations using household level information from NFHS-5. The study finds huge variations in RCH status both between and within states where Reproductive Health appears to be a crucial dimension of deprivation.