NEW DELHI: President R. Venkataraman Wednesday underlined the need for checking the population explosion by evolving a national plan of action along with limiting wasteful expenditure striving for a tolerant society and bringing back misguided elements into the national mainstream.
In his broadcast to the nation on the eve of Independence Day Venkataraman said highest priority should be accorded to drawing up an action plan for stabilizing the population. The disconcerting rise in our population dilutees if not nullifies the progress we make. Higher percentage of literacy synchronizes with a lower rate of population grown as is evidenced in Kerala the President observed.
Therefore he said the implementation of the directive principle of compulsory primary education might serve the dual purpose of advancing literacy and containing the population explosion.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 23, 1991
