What does making services affordable mean in the National Population Policy?

Correct answer: Common people can get essential services at low cost

Direct answer: C. Affordable services are services that people can obtain without an excessive financial burden. In population and health policy, affordability helps ordinary and poorer families use essential information, counselling and health-related services. Affordability is different from availability: availability means that a service exists or can be reached, while affordability means that its cost is within people’s capacity to pay. A is wrong because limiting services to the rich is the opposite of affordability. B is wrong because affordability concerns users and access, not exclusive supply to private companies. D is wrong because limiting services to the capital creates a location barrier. Memory cue: affordable means financially reachable—“low cost enough for ordinary families,” not “available only in one place.”