Thanjavur: Rally, seminar mark World Population Day

Thanjavur: Tamil Nadu is in the forefront in implementing family welfare schemes and population control, said N. Subbaiyan, the district collector here on Saturday.

 

The Thanjavur collector was speaking after he flagged off the World population day rally from the government rajah mirasudhar hospital, and administering the World population day pledge. He said that the United Nations announced that July 11 should be observed as ‘World Population day’ when global population had crossed 500 crore on July 11 in 1987. 

 

The present population of the world is 732.5 crore, of which India's population is 128.8 crore. Tamil Nadu’s population is 7.66 crore. India's population is next only to China and hence population control is necessary for India from socio-economic point of view, he urged.

 

Medical college nursing students, students of Our lady nursing college, Kundavai Nachiyar government women's college, Rajah's higher secondary school, Mannai Narayanaswamy nursing college and Kundavai nursing college took part in the rally. The rally ended at Sangeetha Mahal, where a seminar was held.  

 

The collector said at the seminar that a small family norm is good for people. Women literacy is important so that women can nurture their children in a better way. He appealed to the people to follow any one of the family planning methods that are available for men/women.