Shimla, Aug 2 - Himachal Pradesh has a reason to celebrate -- asked to control its population under the 'Hum Do, Hamare Do' campaign, it has achieved its target much before the 2010 deadline.

Himachal Pradesh is among the 11 states to have achieved the central government's 'two-child per couple' target for population control, an official statement said Sunday.

'The hill state has fulfilled the target popularised by the 'Hum Do, Hamare Do' or 'We Two, Our Two' campaign well before the deadline of 2010. It has achieved a total fertility rate of two or lesser children,' said the statement.

The target was fixed by the central government in its National Population Policy 2000.