In order to stabilize the population in the country’s largest state Uttar Pradesh in terms of population, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is going to announce a new population policy for 2021-2030 on the occasion of World Population Day on July 11.

The period of outgoing population policy 2000-16 of the state has ended.

As per the proposed policy, all efforts will be made to increase the accessibility of contraceptive measures issued under the Family Planning Programme and provide a proper system for safe abortion. At the same time, efforts will also be made to reduce the mortality rate through improved health facilities. The policy will provide incentives to people who will help in population control.

The UP CM Yogi Adityanath has called for a community-centric approach to controle the state’s population so that better facilities may be made available to the people and the state can be developed properly. In a statement, he said poverty and illiteracy are major factors for population expansion. The state need to ensure a community-centric awareness efforts to curb the population as there is also a lack of awareness about population in certain communities the CM said.

A government spokesperson said the policy will follow a five-pronged approach to population control and it is also focused on improving health. The state’s total fertility rate is 2.7 per cent currently whereas it should ideally be less than 2.1 per cent. Except UP and Bihar, most states have achieved this.

Reviewing the new population policy for 2021-30, the Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said it is necessary to control the population growth rate for the development of the state. Better facilities can be provided to all the citizens of the state only by controlling the population, he said. The new population policy also includes better management of nutrition, education and health of adolescents aged 11 to 19 years, besides making comprehensive arrangements for the care of the elderly.

Briefing about the new population policies, Yogi Adityanath said the efforts should be made to maintain the demographic balance in all the communities, easy availability of advanced health facilities, through proper nutrition and bring down the maternal and child mortality rate to the minimum level. The CM has said that health clubs should be formed in schools and added that digital tracking should be done for newborns, adolescents and elderly people.

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Earlier, Additional Chief Secretary Medical, Health and Family Welfare Amit Mohan Prasad told Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that the proposed population policy is being prepared after studying several reports including National Family Health Survey-04 and Survey-05 which is going to be released soon.

In other India News, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review the Covid situation in the country and the progress of oxygen augmentation and availability of medical oxygen ahead of the potential third wave of Covid-19.

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