Urban population goes up in Bihar

AK Saxena, Joint Director of the Directorate of Census Operations (Bihar), presented the provisional census data for 2011, in Patna on July 29, 2011. He said the urban population in Bihar has increased to 11.30 per cent of the estimated total population of 10.38 crore in the state but the sex ratio has dropped to 916 females per 1000 males in the past decade. “Urban population in Bihar was 10.5 per cent of its total population in 2001 and is 11.30 per cent in 2011,” he said.

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Government gears up for population stabilisation programme

Rakesh Mohan, joint secretary of Union Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry, said that the government had selected 14 blocks in Bihar's Purnia, Kishanganj and Darbhanga districts for the population stabilisation programme. Talking to reporters in Patna on July 25, 2011, Rakesh Mohan said Nehru Yuva Kendra volunteers would make aware people about the way to control population.

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Seminar on 'Population Control: Needs a Law in India or Not' held in Patna

Nirvana organised a seminar on " Population Control: Needs a Law in India or Not" at LN Mishra Institute of Economic Development and Social Change in Patna on August 29, 2010. Justice Mridula Mishra of Patna High Court said incentives should be given to families living below poverty line for population control.

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Climate change a problem for population control

Girls’ education and women empowerment could check the population growth. Climate change has also affected the population control programme. These views were expressed by the speakers at the UNFPA’s state of the world population 2009 report release function in Patna on November 20, 2009.
UNFPA’s Marc Derveeuw and Principal Health Secretary (Government of Bihar), CK Mishra were among the prominent speakers.
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Study report "Youth in India: Situation and Needs (Bihar) released

Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Sushil K Modi released a study report "Youth in India: Situation and Needs (Bihar) at a function organsied by International Institute for Population Sciences and Population Council in Patna on November 9, 2009.
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