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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Population growth rate dips to 17%-Kounteya Sinha

Population growth rate dips to 17%-Kounteya Sinha

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published Published on May 5, 2012   modified Modified on May 5, 2012

Population has started to swell in Delhi's suburbs. Gurgaon and Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) are among the top five places in India that recorded the highest decadal growth rate in population.

While Gurgaon recorded a 74% increase in population between 2001 and 2011, Noida saw a rise by almost 52%. India saw a 17.6% increase in population over the decade.

Kurung Kumey - a small district in Arunachal Pradesh bordering China - recorded the highest decadal increase in population at 111%, followed by Yanam in Puducherry (77.15%).

North-eastern states like Meghalaya (27.82%) and Arunachal Pradesh (25.92%) recorded the highest increase in decadal population growth.

Andhra Pradesh (11.10), Odisha (13.97%) West Bengal (13.93%), Tamil Nadu (15.60%), Karnataka (15.67%) and Maharashtra (15.99%), however, recorded decadal growths below the national average. Bihar (25%), Delhi (20.97%), Uttar Pradesh (20.09%) and Rajasthan (20.44%) reported high decadal population growth.

Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's home state Jammu and Kashmir recorded a 23.71% increase in decadal population growth. Haryana, on the other hand, recorded a 19.90% increase in population over the last 10 years.

Azad said on Friday that "The growth rate of the population in 304 districts in 28 states has been higher than the average population growth rate of the country between 2001 and 2011."

In Maharashtra, Thane saw the highest decadal increase in population at 35.94%, followed by Pune (30.34%), Aurangabad (27.33%), Nandurbar (25.5%) and Nashik (22.33%).

In Delhi, south-west region saw the highest increase in population followed by north-west (27.63%), south (20.59%) and west (18.91%).

In Karnataka, Bangalore saw a 46.68% increase in population, while in Tamil Nadu, it was Kancheepuram (38.69%).

In Bihar, Madhepura district recorded highest population increase at 30.65%, followed by Kishanganj (30.44%).

Noida in UP saw the highest increase, followed by Ghaziabad (40.66%).

Indore in Madhya Pradesh topped the list with an increase by 32.71%, while in Gujarat, it was Surat (42.19%).

Azad said India's decadal growth rate has come down from 21.54% (2001) to 17.64% (2011).

He said, "for focused attention to districts having weak health indicators pertaining to maternal health, child health and family planning, 264 high focus districts have been identified across the country for supportive supervision and higher allocation of funds to bridge critical gaps."

According to him, some of the key new interventions that have been added to ongoing measures for population stabilization include a new scheme that has been launched to utilize the services of Accreditated Social Health Activists (ASHA) to deliver contraceptives at the doorstep of beneficiaries. The scheme is being implemented in 233 districts of 17 states. ASHA is charging a nominal amount from beneficiaries for her effort to deliver contraceptives at doorstep - Re 1 for a pack of 3 condoms, Re 1 for a cycle of Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs) and Rs 2 for a pack of one tablet of Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECP).

Copper Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices have also been introduced under the National Family Planning programme with training of state-level trainers has been completed and the process is underway to train service providers up to the sub-centre level.

A new method of IUCD insertion namely Post- Partum IUCD (PPIUCD) has been introduced, with 276 district hospitals in high focus states have been identified for strengthening PPIUCD services.

Azad, however, has made it clear that India would not follow China's footsteps of pushing a one-child norm.

"According to the recently conducted Census of India, our population stands at 1.21 billion. As per the projections, India's population would be 1.40 billion by 2026. With only 2.4% of the entire world's landmass to support 17% of the global population; India's need for population stabilization can hardly be overemphasized," the minister said.

The measures that have contributed to the lowering of fertility rate, the minister cited, includes improving literacy levels, empowerment of women, discouraging adolescent marriages, delaying of the first child birth, enhancement in the compensation package for sterilization, encouraging male participation in sterilization and involving village-level community health workers in promoting family planning.

India is likely to miss its target of reaching population stabilization by 2045. Now, the Union health ministry is looking at 2060 as a plausible target.

India had set itself the goal of attaining replacement levels of fertility - 2.1 by 2010 - to achieve the larger goal of population stabilization by 2045. However, by the end of 2010, only 14 states achieved the target. Six states have fertility as high as 3-4.

This has made the ministry estimate that instead of reaching population stabilization in 2045 (145 crore), it will reach the target (165 crore) around 2060.

The Times of India, 5 May, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Population-growth-rate-dips-to-17/articleshow/13003001.cms


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