Population control is essential for growth and development of the nation and to provide better facilities to all citizens and take all government schemes to all the people. Imparting basic education to women alone will bring desirable changes in birth control measures, said T. Jayabal, Joint Director of Health Services.
He was inaugurating a seminar on population to mark the World Population Day here on Thursday.
Kerala and Tamil Nadu were ranked first in the country in controlling population.
Population control measures could be effectively implemented only through education, particularly to women. Rapid growth in population would create shortage in basic amenities like food, dress, shelter and education. Besides, unemployment problems would increase manifold and income of individuals would scale down. Providing protected drinking water facilities, transport facilities would become a tougher task. Implementation of medical and health care schemes and industrial training would face a severe set back owing to rapid increase in population, he stated.
Approximately, 10.72 lakh children were delivered in the State in a year, 89,333 every month, 20,615 every week, 2,937 every day, 122 every hour and two every minute. Advanced medical facilities had scaled down mortality rate of children and increased the life span of individuals to 75 to 80 years, Dr. Jayabal stated.
All should adopt small family concept to provide better education to their children and to bring them up healthier and stronger. Sharing limited income of a family by more children would affect their health as well as their education, comfort and ultimately their career, he added.
