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Focus
POPULATION ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT
Volume XV NO.2
April-June 2001
Conference on' Health, Development and Population
Stabilisation Issues' Makes Recommendations for Uttaranchal
Population
organised
Foundation of India
a two-day State Level
Conference
on "Health,
Development
and Population
Stabilisation issues in Uttaranchal"
at Dehradun on May 22-23, 2001 at
Hotel Madhuban. The Conference
was inaugurated by the Chief Minister
of Uttaranchal, Mr Nityanand Swamy.
Political leaders of the State,
administrators,
social scientists,
representatives
of dedicated
institutions and NGOs concerned
with the issues deliberated for two
days to work out a concerted plan
of action.
The Chief Minister released a Wall
Chart on Population and Development:
Uttaranchal: 2001 and Distn"ct Profile
of Uttaranchal specially brought out
by the Foundation.
The Conference brought in sharp
focus the grim realities in Uttaranchal
in relation to gender issues, growth
of population, political, economic,
Mr Nityanand Swamy, Chief Minister of Uttaranchal releasing a Wall Chart on Population and
Development: Uttaranchal: 2001 at the inauguration of the State Level Conference at Dehradun.
Others are (from left): Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFI and Ms Justice Leila Seth, Member,
PFI Governing Board.
social and bureaucratic structure of
the State. The service facilities are
poor and the administrative structure
is disjointed and without direction.
The Human Development Index is
lowest in some regions like
Himalayan regions which is highly
dissected, undulating, rugged and
earthquake prone with cold climate
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On Other Pages
• Community Radio Programmes, Vja/a, Kusuma/e Are Popular 3
• Empowering Panchayat Members Through Video
4
• Seminar on Census Results
5
• Total Integrated Programme for Dewas District
• More Regional Training and Resource
Development Centres
• RCH Services for Panchkula Villages
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During the past four years, the Population
Foundation of India has been organising
a series of two-day Conferences at the state
level on the broad theme of 'Health,
Development and Population Stabilization'
issues relating to the state. So far three such
Conferences have been organised ; first in
Lucknow for Uttar Pradesh (January 1999), second
in Bhopal for Madhya Pradesh (August 1999)
and the third in Dehradun for Uttalanchal (May
2001). The next one is scheduled on October 4-
5, 2001 at Pune for Maharashtra.
During these Conferences, a number of
constraints which operate at the state level
impeding the realisation of the health,
development and population stabilization goals
set by the states themselves have been identified
and discussed. Time and again it was brought
out that the states are failing in achieving their
goals not because of lack of good intention on
the part of the successive state governments but
because of various inherent structural constraints
in the system. These constraints can be broadly
classified as political, bureaucratic, social,
economic, health and demographic. While
many of the constraints are common across all
the states, many of them are unique for a
particular state.
For example, in the health sector the public policy
operating in most of the states of having the same
medical and paramedical workers and health care
institutions on the basis of population size across
the whole state has found to be very ineffective
and inefficient. The health needs of the people,
accessibility to and effectiveness of health services
depend on a host of other parameters such as
population density, availability of services in the
private sector, connectivity etc. which may vary
from district to district, probably village to village.
Hence health services and personnel have to be
distributed across the population on the basis of
real and perceived needs and utilisation of such
services, rather than on a blanket population pro-
rata basis. In this context massive national and
state level campaigns such as immunisation
campaigns, polio plus campaigns seem to be
disrupting for a substantial part of the year, the
basic health care services.
There is a need to balance the regular static
basic health care services provided by the health
institutions in the country and the services that
can be provided by campaigns on a hit and run
method. While the latter campaigns are more
glamourous and politically savvy their impact
on the morbidity and mortality levels of the
population can be minimal. These constraints
have to be worked out at the state level by the
state authorities in discussion with the
stakeholders.
The Population Foundation of India in their state
level Conferences are trying to assist the state
governments in this task and also the ways and
means in which the population policies set by
~_M!-J. - the states are being implemented.
(Dr K Srinivasan)
Ms Rathi Vinay Jha, Chairperson and Managing Director, India Trade Promotion Organisation
inaugurating the PFI stall at Social Development Fair. Ms Asha Das, Secretary, Ministry of Social
Justice and Environment is seen next to her.
PFI Participates in Social Development Fair
Population Foundation of India
participated
in the Social
Development
Fair held at
Pragati Maidan from May 15 to 21,
2001. Organised by India Trade
Promotion Organisation
(ITPO)
every year, the main objective of the
Fair, fifth in the annual series, was
to integrate efforts of government
departments,
non-governmental
organisations,
voluntary
organisations
and others on
issues of social
development. The
Fai r
was
inaugurated
by
Mrs Asha Das,
Secretary, Ministry
of Social Justice
and Environment
on May 15, 2001.
inaugurated by Ms Rathi Vinay Jha,
Chairperson
and Managing
Director,
ITPO who was
accompanied by Mrs Asha Das. The
PFI stall displayed the recent
activities
of PFI through a
number of thoughtfully designed
panels and publications.
The
population
clock showing the
population of various states and
the video films attracted a large
crowd.
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The PFI stall
was formally
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Community Radio Programmes, Ujala, Kusumale Are Popular
The project to use Community
Radio for empowering the
community on the issues of
PopuLation, HeaLth and SociaL
DeveLopment in Uttar Pradesh and
Karnataka has evoked good response
from the community.
Ujala, the radio programme for
Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh
was Launched on March 19, 2001 from
ALR Obra. A simpLe function was
organised by Banwasi Seva Ashram,
the NGOworking in Sonbhadra district
and headed by Dr Ragini Prem with
whom PFI has coLLaborated.
NearLy 200 peopLe, including women,
men and some chiLdren, had been
specially invited by the Ashram for
the programme which was heLd in a
big haLL. A radio set was pLaced with
attached pubLic addresses system for
the sound to be ampLified.
Executive Director Dr K Srinivasan
weLcoming the Listeners of Sonbhadra
district to the programme, detaiLs
about the contents and appreciation
of the contribution by Banwasi Seva
Ashram and AIR Obra officiaLs.
Ujala is broadcast every Monday at
7.30 p.m. for 30 minutes. The
episodes so far have focussed
on decentraLisation, awareness about
women's education and marriage of
girLs after 18, precautions during
pregnancy and safe deLivery etc.
The Foundation is now pLanning to
get the same series of programme
broadcast from ALL India Radio
Varanasi.
Kusumale, the radio programme for
Mysore district in Karnataka went on
air in November 2000 from AIR
BangaLore.
The magazine
programme contains interviews,
skits and information reLated to
heaLth and sociaL deveLopment
issues specially focused to the tribaL
community, Soligas. A totaL of 52
episodes, each of 30 minute
duration in Kannada, are to be
broadcast.
To study the reach and impact of the
programme in Banjara Hills among
the Soligas, AIR BangaLore has done
a mail survey covering a sampLe of
500 househoLds after the compLetion
of one fourth of the totaL episodes
by Audience Research Unit of
BangaLore. A house-to-house survey
covering a sampLe of 1000
househoLds has been pLanned after
the compLetion of the series,
Kusumale.
As soon as the programme was over,
comments were invited from the
assembLed audience. Some of these
comments were recorded by AIR Obra
and included in a Later programme.
There was Lot of enthusiasm and
excitement; the assembLed peopLe
seemed happy with the format of the
programme: Nautanki (a musicaL
with a narrative Line) and wanted the
format to continue for the future
programmes.
The first episode of Ujala was a
curtain raiser which began with
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Empowering Panchayat Members Through Video
and Child Health
Programmes,
Gender
Inequality,
Family
Planning
Methods,
Communicable Diseases
and its Prevention, Water
and Sanitation, Food and
Nutrition, and Literacy
and Education
for
Panchayat Raj members.
A training programme on Empowerment of Panchayati Raj
Institutions at Shri Bhuvaneshwari Mahila Ashram, Anjanisain,
Uttaranchal is in progress. From left: Mrs Padma Srinivasan,
Mr Vincent Victor, Joint Director (lEG), PFI and Mr Virendra
Painuly, Secretary of the Ashram.
For Service Providers, the
modules
covered
subjects like Counselling,
Reproductive and Child
Health
Services,
The PH's project to empower
Panchayati Raj Institutions on
the Issues of Population,
Promotion of Family Planning
Methods, Unmet Needs, and
Communicable Diseases and their
Health and Social Development
Prevention.
through Mass Media Communication
(T.V.) in Uttar Pradesh has made In collaboration with three NGOs,
considerable progress.
which are working with Panchayati
Raj Institutions,
the Foundation
The Foundation has prepared 14 conducted training programmes for
teaching modules in-house - nine their Master Trainers using the video
for Panchayati Raj members and five programmes.
for service providers. The teaching
modules, with a duration of 25 The first training programme was
minutes each, in Hindi covered organised in collaboration
with
subjects
like
Roles
and Diocesan Social Work Centre in
Responsibilities of Panchayati Raj Lucknow on May 7-9, 2001. The
Institutions,
Population
and Diocesan Social Work Centre is
Development Issues, Reproductive
working in 8 districts of Uttar
Pradesh. There were 33 participants
from different districts.
The second training programme was
conducted in collaboration with Sri
Rhuvaneshwari
Mahila Ashram
(SBMA), Anjanisain, Uttaranchal on
May 19-20, 2001. SBMA is working
with 125 Gram Panchayats in 230
villages: 58 in Tehri Garhwal, 25 in
Uttarkashi and 42 in Chamoli. The
participants were medical doctors,
post graduates and graduates.
The third training of trainers was
conducted in collaboration with GNK
Plan, District Maharajganj, on June
25-26, 2001. GNK-Plan is working in
Ratanpur Block of Maharajganj
district since 1998 in partnership with
Plan International. There were 22
participants including 5 Panchayat
Pradhans from different villages, who
took great interest in the training.
The nine modules on health and
social development issues were
telecast from Lucknow Doordarshan
(channel 16) on Thursdays from
June 7, 2001 under the title "Pragati
Ka Dwar Panchayati Raj." The
Foundation has also received a
confirmation for re-telecast of the
nine modules from DD-1.
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Community Radio
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In order to encourage the listeners,
AIR Bangalore has proposed to give
a question at the end of each
episode. Around 200 letters are
received after each episode. Correct
answers are being shortlisted
and from them the lucky two
will be selected. Two prizes of
Rs 100/- each, for each episode will
be given.
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Seminar on Census Results
Aseminar was organised
Population Foundation
India in collaboration
by
of
with
even more significant
among the females. He
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at India illiterates has recorded a
International Centre on April 25,
2001. The seminar was held to
critically examine the implications of
decline from 328.2
million in 1991 to 296.2
million in 2001.
Dr K Venkatasubramanian, Member, Planning Commission
inaugurating the seminar on Census Results organised by PFI.
Others are (from left): Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Member, PFI
Governing Board and Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFI.
the 2001 Census results from the
point of view of their impact on On the whole, he said the Census of recorded by media persons and
past programmes
and policy 2001 gives a mixed picture of the reported verbati m.
implications for the future. Dr K country with rapid rise in the literacy
Venkatasubramanian,
member,
levels, improvement in over all sex He asserted that Census data is meant
Planning Commission inaugurated
ratio and stagnation of growth rates to be confidential as per the statute
the seminar.
in some of the large Hindi speaking and such disclosure, "not only
states of the North in the country.
violates the legal requirement of
Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director,
secrecy but also sends the wrong
PFI said one of the major findings Making a presentation on the session message to the public who may lose
of the Census is that the literacy rate on 'Population
Growth and faith in the ability of the agency to
among population aged 7 and above Distribution',
Mr J K Banthia,
keep the details confidential:
has improved significantly during Registrar General and Census
the decade 1991-2001. The jump is Commissioner, India, said a change Mrs Krishna Singh, Member Secretary,
in the child population
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of the country could
have serious policy
implications.
Dr M Vijayanunni,
former
Registrar
chaired one of the sessions.
In his valedictory address, Dr
Francois Farah, UNFPA Country
Representative, India, said it was
necessary to understand why the
General and Census South was developing at a faster
Commissioner, India, pace than the North. This should be
questioned the manner studied in a social and geo-political
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in which entire personal
and
household
perspective. He stressed the need to
find ways to sustain literacy in neo-
Dr Francois Farah, UNFPA Country Representative, India (centre)
giving the valedictory address at the seminar. Others are (from
left): Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Member, PFI Governing Board,
Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFI and Mr J K Banthia,
Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India.
particulars of important
persons in response to
the
enumerators'
questions
were
literate areas as experience has
shown that people could easily fall
back to illiteracy in the absence of
continuous efforts.
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New Projects
Total Integrated Programme for Dewas
District in Madhya Pradesh
States like U.P, Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Orissa
have high Population growth,
high fertility, high maternal and
infant mortality levels and poor
reproductive
and child health
conditions. The states also have poor
status of women and continuing low
literacy levels though there are
substantial improvements in the
literacy part during the past 10 years.
The Foundation has decided to take
one district in each of the above
states and implement in partnership
with other like minded agencies a
total integrated
package of
reproductive, child health and family
planning services in the district over
a period of five years. The purpose
of such a total integrated
programme is to accelerate the pace
of decline in infant and maternal
mortality rates, prevent unwanted
births, provide adequate spacing
between births and improve the
reproductive and child health of the
population in the district. Such a
district will eventually serve -as a
model district for the state as well
as for other agencies that wish to
implement a similar programme.
Population Foundation of India has
collaborated
with Ranbaxy
Community Health Care Society in
implementing
total integrity
programme in the district of Dewas
in Madhya Pradesh where Ranbaxy
has a pharmaceutical unit with a
small social development cell.
The objectives of this project are to
reduce the infant and maternal
mortality rate in the district by half
within the next five years, to increase
contraceptive prevalence to 65% and
to reduce the total fertility rate to
2.1 within the same period. All the
unmet needs of the couples for
spacing the limitation of children
will be met under this programme
and the couples would be offered a
choice of family planning method
with easy accessibility, affordability
and of good quality.
The levels of intervention will be at
district and block level.
The partners and stakeholders in the
project will be the Madhya Pradesh
government, Zila Panchayats and
Gram
Panchayats,
Dewas
Municipality,
District Planning
Committee, MGM Medical College,
Indore, Ranbaxy Community Health
Care Society, Population Foundation
of India, Other local NGOs, Corporate
Sector and Cooperatives.
The methodology of the project will
consist of making a need
assessment. An assessment will be
made of the prevailing situation in
the district in terms ofthe availability
of facilities, services, personnel and
the auxiliary services of education,
communication and information.
Baseline Survey will be made to
determine the various health
indicators related to maternal
mortality, infant mortality, morbidity
and fertility.
The target groups for the project,
i.e. eligible couple, people affected
with RTI/STIs, pregnant women,
post-natal mother, infants and
children and adolescents will be
identified.
PFI and Ranbaxy
resources required
objectives.
will identify
to meet the
Accessibility of regular, affordable
and high quality reproductive health
services will be increased in
collaboration
with existing
governmental
and
non-
governmental outlets along with
service centres equipped with
adequate facilities.
Effective messages on family
planning, health and nutrition
needs of pregnant and lactating
women, child care, family planning
methods, adolescent health and
gender equality will be disseminated
by involving male members, health
workers, and grassroot level
organisations
like Panchayats
which will ensure community
participation.
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More Regional Training and Resource Development Centres
Encouraged by the success of Training and Resource
Development Centre (TRDC) set up at its Head Office
in Delhi, with the support of Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, to train NGO's personnel involved in RCH
related activities, the PFI decided to establish Regional
Training and Resource Development Centres (RTRDCs) to
provide training to the staff of NGOs to build their capacity
in management and implementation of RCH programmes.
The centres are being set up in collaboration with local
NGOs having infrastructure for training. PFI has extended
funding and technical expertise to the NGOs. The RTRDCs
will be responsible for imparting training to master trainers
who in turn will train smaller NGO functionaries on RCH
issues. The Foundation has so far established RTRDCs
at the following places:
Regions
Bangalore (Karnataka)
Cuttack (Orissa)
Kanpur(UP)
Patna (Bihar)
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
Coordinating NGO
MYRADA
National Institute of Applied
Human Research
Development (NIAHRD)
Bharatiya Grameen Mahila
Sangh
S10Catherine Hospital
ADITHI
Alternative for India
Development
Population Research
Centre
The RTRDC at Bangalore came into being in October 2000
in collaboration with MYRADA. Five training programmes
have so far been conducted for trainers using RCH module
developed in Kannada.
The RTRDC at Cuttack in collaboration with NIAHRD
was established in October 2000. Since its inception,
one training course for master trainers followed by four
regular courses of five days' duration have been
conducted. 10 RCH based modules and a module on
Disaster Management have been incorporated in the
course curriculum.
For RTRDC at Indore, PFI has collaborated with Bharatiya
Grameen Mahila Sangh, a local NGO working at Indore.
The first training course for master trainers was conducted
in January in the presence of PFI faculty. The NGO has
developed RCH module keeping in view the needs of local
trainers. Trained master trainers now have taken up the
responsibility of training local NGOs trainers from Indore,
Zhabua, Khargaon, Hoshangabad, Dewas and Rajgarh
districts. In total, four training programmes have so far
been completed.
St Catherine's Hospital, Kanpur, a UP based NGO, ADITHI
of Patna, Alternative for India Development, Jamshedpur
and Population Research Centre of Udaipur have been
selected as NGOs. PFI would establish RTRDCs in
collaboration with these NGOs. The NGOs are busy in
staff recruitment, identification of local based NGOs and
selection of resource persons. Thereafter, they would
develop a reproductive health module to be used during
the training.
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Adequate emphasis will be laid on
women's empowerment by evolving
strategies focussed 0 n in creasi n g
literacy rate, decreasing age at
marriage, and income generation.
evolved to reach the target groups.
The campaign will focus on creating
an environment
conducive to
planned family and creating a
demand for family planning and
RCH services.
done at district level by a core team.
Involving members from government
health team, implementing agencies,
PFI and Ranbaxy. This team will
assess progress of the project from
time to time in terms of improvement
in indicators and suggest necessary
changes.
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RCH Services for Panchkula Villages
The Foundation is to start a
project in collaboration with
Environment Society of Haryana
wiLL be done under categories of
newLy married, coupLes with one
child and coupLes with two or more
MonthLy heaLth check up camps for
women in each village wilL be heLd.
(ENSOH) for impLementation of RCH chiLdren.
Education,
motivation
and
services in nine villages of PanchkuLa
counseLing wiLL be carried out
District in Haryana.
Procurement of suppLies comprising
covering
issues Like famiLy
of IUD, ORS etc from Government
pLanning, women's empowerment,
The overaLL objective of the project is Centres and deveLopment of Dai gender equity, women's Literacy,
to take up issues on women and chiLd Delivery Kits (DDKs) wiLL be done.
hygiene and sanitation, awareness
heaLth as envisaged in Reproductive
of AIDS, STD and use of condom
and Child HeaLth Programme under Training of Birth Attendants on MCH etc. Techniques used by the project
Life cycle approach.
and ongoing training on seLected wilL be group discussions, camps
topics wiLLbe carried out. The trained and personaL meetings.
IEC
The specific objectives are to enabLe Dais wouLd aLso function as depot activities wiLL include materiaL
women to reguLate their own fertiLity hoLders and distributors of suppLies deveLopment and dissemination of
by conceiving when desired or in the community. They wiLLaLso carry information.
terminating unwanted pregnancies;
the message on gender equity.
remaining
free of
The project
wiLL be
diseases; bearing two
impLemented
with active
heaLthy
children;
immunising
chiLdren;
creating awareness in the
Education, motivation and
counseling will be carried out
participation
community
Strategy
of LocaL
and Panchayats.
wilL include
community about STDj
HIVjAIDS; promoting use
of condom and restoring
the bioLogicaL sex ratio in
covering issues like family
planning, women's empowerment,
gender equity, women's literacy,
organisation of street pLays,
Nukkad Nataks, puppet
shows with cooperation of
Mahila MandaLs and Youth
the project area.
hygiene and sanitation,
MandaLs. SpeciaLLy appointed
A baseLine survey is to be
carried out focussed on
awareness of AIDS , sTD and
use of condoms.
sociaL workers wiLL carry
out the motivationaL
campaigns.
reproductive
heaLth of
women and child heaLth.
An end-Line survey wiLL be
Besides assessing heaLth needs of Training camps for adoLescent girls wiLL carried out at the end of the
the community,
Dais wouLd be be arranged in seLected areas in project.
Indicators
Like early
identified during the survey which coLLaboration with schooLs. These registration
of pregnancy, home
wouLd aLso Look into reasons for son adoLescent girLs wouLd aLso be deLivery conducted by TBAs and
preference
and make a rough expected to function as peer educators DDKs, distribution of condoms and
estimate of maLe: femaLe births.
for disseminating
knowLedge on pilLs, sex ratio in the project area,
heaLth, family pLanning and gender etc. have been identified by the
equity.
agency.
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Recommendations for Uttaranchal
and poor quality soils. Uttaranchal
prevalent in the State.
shows diversities in development • Strengthen
and
.I. Population FoundalJon of I"d«
.l.T.I.
H
State level Conference on
.1'JJJ. Health:~~elopmentand P
Stablhsatlon Issues In UUa
May 22-2UOOl ll! Hcte U~.
with pockets of development in
empower Panchayati
regions of under development.
Raj Institutions.
• Create employment
At the concluding session of the
opportunities within
Conference, the recommendations
were listed out by the Executive
Director of PFI, Dr KSrinivasan which
are as follows:
Uttaranchal to reduce
out-migration from
the State and reduce
dependence
on
Mr Ramesh Pokhariyal 'Nishank', Finance Minister of Uttaranchal
speaking at the Conference. Seated are (from left): Prof B K Joshi,
Executive Director, Centre for Himalayan and Policy Studies,
Dehradun and Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFI.
• Two high level Committees
'money
order
be set up to develop policies
economy'.
village Panchayat.
regarding
Population • Train indigenous Registered • Rework the population/ANM/PHC
Stabilization
and related
Medical Practitioners in RCH and
ratio keeping in mind distance or
develop-mental
issues, and
deploy them along with regular
some unusal conditions peculiar
Health, Education and Gender.
Health Staff with clearly defined
to Uttaranchal.
• Adopt Village level need based
responsibilities.
• Promote home/herbal remedies
planning for health communi- • Reduce the economic inequity that
at the household level.
cators, households, villages and
apparently exists between the Hill • Recommend district level
Panchayats.
districts and the Plains.
conferences to be organised.
• Set up a legislative council on the • Address the problem of declining Speaking after inaugurating the
basis of fixed number of members
sex ratio in age 0-6 years.
conference, Mr Nityananad Swamy
for each district or geographical • Improve the health infrastructure said rapid increase in population has
area to remove disparities in
in the State, especially in remote become an impediment in the social
density of population widely
mountainous terrain.
and economic development of the
• Consider possibility of country. It has also led to the growth
introducing Mobile of slums in large number. Mr Swamy
Health Care to cater to said the message of population
scattered
rural stabilisation should be spread to
populations.
slums and rural areas. The
• Improve
the Government
of Uttaranchal
manpower utilization was planning to regulate
within the Health Care population through legislative
Systems to maximize measures, he said.
gains in the midst of
resource constraints.
Earlier, welcoming the participants,
Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFllighting the lamp at the
inauguration of the Conference. Others are (from left): Ms Justice
Leila Seth and Mr J C Pant (both members of PFI Governing
Board), Mr Nityanand Swamy, Chief Minister, Uttaranchal and
Begum Bilkees Latif, Member, PFI Governing Board.
• Train a cadre of village
volunteers trained in
Reproductive and Child
Health under control of
the Executive Director of PFI, Dr K
Srinivasan said the Conference at
Dehradun was a part of series of
Conferences that the Foundation has
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"HealthStaDte
atlon
Level C"
of
Ind'
ta,
NewOelhi
on1erence on
St b.'l· evelopment and Population
a Iisation Issues in Uttaranchaf
~ay 22-23 200'
,
Io:el .lad ,ucal !leva Dun
would be identified in
five dimensions:
political, bureaucratic,
economic, social and
health.
Finance Minister of
Uttaranchal,
Mr
Ramesh
Pokhriyal
Nishank was one of the
special guests to
Dr Pooja Juyal, Reader in Political Science, IT College, Lucknow
(right) making a presentation. Others are (from left): Prof B K Joshi,
Executive Director, Centre for Himalayan and Policy Studies,
Dr K Srinivasan, Executive Director, PFI and Mr R Ramani, Director,
State Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow.
address the conference.
He said the state has
tremendous potential
to develop as main
centre for herbal plants
organised in a number of states. in the country. 'Sanjivani' which cured
The Foundation has been trying to Lakshman when he was injured during
promote partnership between State a battle in Ramayana was found by
Governments
and PFI. Such Hanuman in Uttaranchal.
Conferences have been organised in
the States of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya The first session on "Situational
Pradesh and Rajasthan where Analysis of Uttaranchal on Population
important projects in the areas of Stabilisation
and
Related
Health, Development and Population Developmental Issues" was chaired by
Stabilisation have been identified
Dr K Srinivasan. A paper by Dr K
and funded by the Foundation. The Srinivasan, Dr B P Thiagarajan, Dr V 0
Foundation has also motivated the Shastri on Population Profile of the
State Governments
to make State of Uttaranchal was presented by
Population Policy groups.
Dr Thiagarajan.
Justice Leila Seth, former Chief
Justice of Himachal Pradesh
High Court and Member of PFI
Governing Board chaired the
inaugural session. In her address,
she said the Conference would
identify the factors that were
obstructing the rapid development
of the State from the point of
view of Reproductive and Child
Health and Population Stabilisation
programmes. The major constraints
Dr Thiagarajan said that Uttaranchal
is a State indicative of high social
development
with economic
backwardness in India. In this
respect, it is more akin to Kerala and
is refreshing contrast to most of the
northern States of India. In terms
of literacy, sex ratio and mortality, it
can be compared with the southern
states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala than
its adjoining States like Uttar Pradesh
and Haryana.
Mr J ( Pant, former Secretary,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
and Governing Board member, PFI
chaired Session II on "Health
Constraints
of Uttaranchal
on
Population Stabilisation and Related
Development Issues".
In his presentation, Dr N K Sethi,
Professor, National Institute of
Health & Family welfare, New Delhi
dealt with health constraints and
needs of individuals pertaining to
reproductive health.
In his paper, Dr S K Srivastava,
Consultant, Health & Family Welfare
Management, Dehra Dun said that in
a recent study conducted with
Pradhans of the State revealed that
road, water, electricity, employment,
education, etc stand much higher in
their priority list; health and family
planning ranks only as ninth or tenth
priority.
Session IlIon "Economic Constraints
of Uttaranchal
on Population
Stabilisation
and
Related
Development Issues" was chaired by
Dr A K Singh, Giri Institute of Rural
Development.
Prof Amitabh Kundu, Centre for the
Study of Regional Development,
JNU, New Delhi presented a paper.
He mentioned that future scenario
of growth in the new State would
depend on how the State Government
is able to exploit its natural
resources like water, diversify
cropping pattern and promote
agricultural growth.
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Session IV on "Political Constraints
of Uttaranchal on Population
Stabilisation
and Related
Developmental Issues" was chaired by
Mr R Ramani, Director, State Institute
of Rural Development, Lucknow.
The first paper was presented by Prof
B K Joshi, Executive Director, Centre
for Himalayan and Policy Studies,
Dehra Dun, and former Vice Chancellor
Kumaun University, Nainital. Dr Joshi
said the real political issue in
Uttaranchal continues to be the need
to fashion and implement a strategy
of rapid economic growth and
development which takes into account
the specificities of the hill
environment and of the social
situation.
The second paper in the session was
presented by Dr Pooja Juyal, Reader
in Political Science, IT College,
Lucknow. She said the issue of
population stabilisation needs to be
spoken of along with fair, equitable
and just development.
Session VI on "Social Constraints of
Uttaranchal
on Population
Stabilisation
and Related
Developmental Issues" was chaired
by Dr B K Joshi, Executive Director,
Centre for Himalaya n Development.
A paper on "Social Constraints" was
presented by Dr Lalit Pande, Director,
Uttaranchal Paryavaran Shiksha
Nigam, Lucknow, who said there were
many expectations from the new
state. He said environment plays an
important role in Uttaranchal but can
the living be made sustainable?
The second paper was presented by
Dr Aneeta A Minocha, Department of
Sociology, University of Delhi, who
said the overall picture of Uttarkashi
is one of large scale deterioration,
destruction and depletion of natural
resources due to excessive use, ill
planned
and irresponsible
developmental
activities,
irresponsible mining, poaching and
hunting and collection of wood for
timber trade.
In his valedictory address, Mr J C
Pant said the conference has evoked
good response from the Uttaranchal
government as is evident from the
presence of the Chief Minister and
the Finance Minister at the
conference. He said significant
points have emerged from the
conference. The message of the
conference must reach every block
in Uttaranchal.
Dr Shantanu Dutta, Joint Director, PFI
proposed the vote of thanks.
It was decided that district level
conferences of a similar nature would
be organized through local NGOs
with local government participation.
It was felt that this exercise would
ensure that population stabilization,
health and development issues
would get widely disseminated. 0
Session V on "Bureaucratic
Constraints of Uttaranchal on
Population Stabilization and Related
Development Issues" was chaired by
Begum Bilkees Latiff, member of PFI
Governing Board.
MrJ C Pant, former Secretary, Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare and
Governing Board Member, PFI
presented the paper. He argued that
a fully trained and motivated
bureaucratic system is in place in the
new State.
A general view of the participants at the Conference.
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Training in Communication
As a part of Training and Resource DeveLopment
Centre, PopuLation Foundation of India has
started a training programme to train NGO
personneL in BehaviouraL Change Communication (BCC).
The three-day training programme caters to the
requirement of NGO personneL working in the area of
reproductive and child heaLth.
The training programme includes sessions on
BehaviouraL Change Communication and Reproductive
and Child HeaLth, Advocacy and MobiLisation of
Community through Print and ELectronic Media,
DeveLoping Communication
SkilLs, CounseLLing
and Approaching Masses etc. Interactive sessions
Two of the participants of the training programme on Behavioural Change
Communication during a field visit.
are foLLowed by roLe-pLay. The programme aLso
includes a fieLd visit. The facuLty for the programme is
in-house.
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Departure
Dr Gayathri Subramanian working as Medical Officer in the Foundation left to join a
hospital in Pune. She has worked in a number of projects including the Mobile Health
Clinic which provides Reproductive and Child Health services in Delhi slums. She was
also a part of the in-house faculty for training in TRDC. She was given a warm farewell
on June 15, 2001 at the Foundation where Mrs Padma Srinivasan presented her a
bouquet. Executive Director Dr K Srinivasan applauded her services to the Foundation.
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