India Urged to Improve Family Planning Effort
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NEW DELHI — The Indian government has urged state officials to improve family planning programs to check population growth in the world’s second most populous country.
“We cannot wait for the development process to bring about control of population,” Health Minister Mohsina Kidwai told state health ministers and secretaries in the capital Monday. A text of her remarks was released Tuesday.
“Population has been and continues to be our most serious problem,” she said.
India has a population of about 750 million, second only to China, with more than 1 billion. Kidwai said more than 22 million children are added every year to India’s population.
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