AGARTALA, July 11 (TIWN): Along with the nation, with the aim to increase awareness among the people towards the worldwide population issues, ‘world population day’ is celebrated in NHM office ground on Saturday with the initiative of National Health Mission.

As a part of the occasion a rally was also inaugurated by M. Nagaraju Secretary for Health and Family welfare department. The rally comprised of around 600 people which moved across several parts of the city including Cornel Chowmuhani, IGM, and Orient Chowmuhani to palace Compound.   People from NGO, SHG, ASHA workers including many others participated in the rally.  

Health care, concentration on Nuclear family and healthy living are main themes of observing world population day in Tripura.                 

World population day is an international level awareness campaign being celebrated all over the world to call people on stage to know the reason of this exploding population year by year and as well as to solve the big mistake of whole human fraternity. This great awareness event is to bring a population revolution globally as well as breaking sleep of all the deeply slept people to pay their full attention and help in combating this population issue, said M. Nagaraju.

World Population Day is a great event being celebrated all through the world annually on 11th of July. It is celebrated to increase the awareness of the people towards the worldwide population issues. It was first started in the year 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It was exalted by the interest of the public when the global population became near about five billion at 11th of July in the year 1987.

However, M. Nagaraju Secretary for Health and Family welfare department, NHM director Sandip Meheta along with other dignitaries remained present in the program.