CELEBRATING WORLD POPULATION STABILIZATION MONTH BY GOVT. OF INDIA
National Tele24 News
Chandigarh
Govt. of India is celebrating
World Population Stabilization Month w.e.f 27th June, 2018 to 24th July, 2018.
The month long activities are split into two fortnights i.e. 27th June
till 10th July as World
Population Awareness Generation and Mobilization Fortnight and 11th
July To 27th July as Service Delivery
Fortnight for Family Planning. Likewise U.T. Chandigarh shall also be
working on the similar pattern. The campaign slogan for this year
is “Ek Saarthak Kal ki Shurawaat, Parivaar Niyojan ke Saath” which is being
disseminated in the general public through various awareness generation
activities like bulk messaging, miking of the family planning messages, display
of Banners and posters at health facilities, distribution of pamphlets to the
general public .The focus is being laid on sensitizing the decision makers in
the families to promote marriage at right age, delay first child birth by two
years and adoption of contraceptive methods. Special outreach camps in form of
awareness generation sessions are being conducted at 10 vulnerable sites
selected across UT Chandigarh during evening so that maximum beneficiaries are
at home.
Dr.
G. Dewan, Director Health & Family Welfare cum Mission Director, National
Health Mission, GMSH 16, Chandigarh said that smaller families have a healthier
and more prosperous future which builds the economic health of the entire
nation. It is further stressed upon that the need of hour is to break the
silence about family planning and take the responsibility to plan the families
for bright future of the children.
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