Assam to prepare workforce of 1000 people to check population growth says CM

Replying to a question of Congress MLA, Sherman Ali Ahmed in state assembly on Monday, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Around 1000 youths from Char Chapori (riverine sand bars) will be engaged to check the population growth in those areas. We are also planning to create a separate work force in the lines of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers who will be tasked to disseminate information pertaining to birth control and distribute contraceptive tools among the women in those areas.”

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