The Sindh Secretary for Population Welfare Department Muhammad Mohsin Qureshi has announced that Sindh government has decided to introduce a subject of population welfare in the academic syllabus of secondary and higher secondary levels with a view to introducing awareness about population planning among the people from initial stage.
This he announced while addressing Sindh School Speech competition on the subject of "Population & Development" organised by his department at a local hotel here on Monday.
The students of class 9th and 10th were eligible to contest in the competition. He said that Pakistan was a developing country and it has limited resources to develop the nation as such prevention of rapidly growth of population was very much essential to achieve the development targets. He said that the purpose of population planning was not to stop the birth rate but to maintain the gap of at least five years between the birth of children. This would not only protect the health of mother and child but also provide progress opportunities to them, he added.
He said that education, information and awareness were the instrumental source to make this programme more success and public oriented. He said that the population welfare subject from higher secondary education would embody the youngsters about the merits and demerits of the high and lower birth rates in the society.
He said that not only Pakistan but whole Muslim world has advocated and accepted the theory of population planning while attending a conference of Muslim countries organised by government of Pakistan at Islamabad in 2005. He said that besides the government of Pakistan was also planning to "education for all and employment for all" not only to eradicate illiteracy and unemployment from the society but also put the country on the development track and raise the standard of the people at the par of developed countries. He said that this planning could only be succeeded when we should control our birth rate. He said that the speech competition, easy competition would pave the way for the public awareness.