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World Population Day observed

Staff Correspondent

"Need to provide compulsory primary education for children"

SHIMLA: "Being young is tough" was the theme of World Population Day jointly observed here on Tuesday by voluntary organisation Himachal Gyan Vigyan Samiti and the State Resource Centre. A number of NGO activists, students and political representatives of nearby panchayats and local bodies participated in the day-long programme.

Prof. N.S. Bisht from the Economics Department of Himachal University was the main speaker besides a number of youth and voluntary activists. Prof. Bisht emphasised the need for providing compulsory primary education to children as the main ingredient for changing the burgeoning problem of population into a resource and an asset. "Commercial education should be provided to the unemployed youth for nation-building on the pattern of neighbouring China," he said. The Director of the State Resource Centre, Dr. K.S. Tanwar, in his address said, "Population cannot always be blamed for the depletion of resources but it is the class-ridden society and unequal distribution of means that is equally responsible for the ills in society." "It is a challenge before the youth," he said, "to make the society egalitarian with an equality of opportunity."

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