Population growth still not under control, says Minister

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 14: The government on Monday admitted that nearly 50 years of family planning programmes have failed to curb the popul...

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 14: The government on Monday admitted that nearly 50 years of family planning programmes have failed to curb the population explosion with India adding another 15 million persons to the country each year.

"Though the government programmes in the country have prevented approximately 200 million births upto 1998, the growth rate of population has not declined to the desired extent so far", Union Health Minister N T Shanmugam said.

While expressing his concern at the exponential rate at which the population was increasing, the government is still in the process of "formulating" a National Population Policy, working and reworking on the draft text of a policy that has been gathering dust since the last five years.

The government was "very close" to completing its task of finalising the policy aimed at stabilising the population, Shanmugam said while inaugurating the "Millennium Conference on Population, Development and Environment Nexus" which began here on Monday.

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Debris believed to be from a missile fired by Pakistan during Operation Sindoor in May has been found in Srinagar's Dal Lake. The debris has been handed over to the Air Force for further investigation. Sources say the target may have been a military installation in Srinagar, which is close to the lake. The make of the missile is yet to be determined.

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