‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ success in Himachal
August 2nd, 2009 - 6:42 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Shimla, Aug 2 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh has a reason to celebrate — asked to control its population under the ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ campaign, it has achieved its target much before the 2010 deadline.
Himachal Pradesh is among the 11 states to have achieved the central government’s ‘two-child per couple’ target for population control, an official statement said Sunday.
“The hill state has fulfilled the target popularised by the ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do’ or ‘We Two, Our Two’ campaign well before the deadline of 2010. It has achieved a total fertility rate of two or lesser children,” said the statement.
The target was fixed by the central government in its National Population Policy 2000.
The other states that have achieved the target are Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
State Health Minister Rajeev Bindal attributed the distinction to better health infrastructure in the state.
“More than 75 percent of villages have accessibility to health sub-centres within a distance of three km and 94.5 percent of them have a public health centre within 10 km,” he told IANS.
Himachal Pradesh has a network of over 3,800 health institutions across the state.
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