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NEPAL: Nepali Government to Introduce Plan To Reduce Population Growth Rate
The Himalayan Times reported on 4 July that the Ministry of Health and Population has drafted the 20-year population plan to reduce population growth rate to 2.1 percent from the current rate of 2.3 percent by 2017. Krishna Lamsal, chief of the Population Division, was quoted by the daily as saying that the government formulated the PPP keeping "population" as the main component in the strategic plan as it is inter-related to other components like health, education and poverty. "The 20-year PPP will help policy planners increase understand population and gender issues," said the chief. UNFPA has supported the plan, he said.