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Free education for only children
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15(Daily Times): The government will offer free education up to the
intermediate level to a single child of parents to reduce the present population
growth rate from 1.8 percent to 1.3 percent by 2020.
Population Minister
Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain told reporters on Saturday that the prime minister had
directed the Education Ministry to launch the free education programme as an
incentive to promote a small family culture in the country. He said the National
Institute for Population Studies, an autonomous research body, had surveyed the
country's population growth rate and found that it had reduced from 1.9 percent
in 2005 to 1.8 percent in 2006. He said the government was set to bring the
population growth rate to 1.6 percent in 2012 and to 1.3 percent by
2020.
In his speech during a seminar on public-private sector
collaboration in reproductive health and family planning before the press, the
minister said many initiatives had been introduced to stabilise the population
growth rate.
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| Education News | | Updated: 08 Feb, 2012 |
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