Jharkhand plans to check infant death, population

Ranchi: Feb 08, 2010

Join in the birth control initiatives and get awarded! This is going to be the new mantra of the Government of Jharkhand to put a check over the growing population and infant mortality. In its bid to encourage young couples to adopt population control measures, the Jharkhand will soon tie up with the National Population Stabilisation Fund, widely known as Janshakhya Sthirata Kosh (JSK) to launch its three schemes—Prerna, Santushti and Chiranjeevi—on a public private partnership(PPP) mode. The schemes envisage cash awards upto Rs 19,000 to individuals, whereas institutional initiatives could fetch more than Rs 1.5 lakh.

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