lucknow on the occasion of world population day on july 11 up government will unveil its new policy on population control for 202130chief minister yogi adityanath has called for community centric approach to population control so that better facilities may be made available to people and the state can be developed properly poverty and illiteracy are major factors for population expansion there is also a lack of awareness about population in certain communities and we therefore need communitycentric awareness efforts he saidan official said ups total fertility rate is 27 currently whereas it should ideally be less than 21 most states have achieved this with the exception of up and some states including bihar a government spokesperson said the policy will follow a five pronged approach to population control but the policy is also focussed on improving health during a presentation made before the cm on thursday it was stated that the proposed policy will aim at efforts to increase accessibility of contraceptive measures issued under the family planning programme and provide a proper system for safe abortion on the other hand efforts will be made to stabilise population by providing solutions for impotency and infertility and reducing infant and maternal mortality rate through improved health facilities he said another segment of the policy will focus on comprehensive arrangements for the care of elderly while another focus will be on improved management of education health and nutrition for adolescents between 11 and 19 years the policy will look at different strategies and work towards a convergence of existing schemes to streamline population control efforts and improvement in healththe cm has said that health clubs should be formed in schools and added that digital tracking should be done for newborns adolescents and elderly people while finalising the new policy efforts should be made to maintain the demographic balance in all communities ensure easy availability of advanced health facilities and bring down the maternal and child mortality rates through proper nutrition the objectives of the new policy should be embedded in the spirit of the sustainable development goals the cm saidadditional chief secretary health amit mohan prasad said that ups population policy is being prepared after studying several reports including the national family health survey nfhs04 an official said the nfhs05 is scheduled to be released soon and therefore targets will be set for two phases 2026 and 2030meanwhile up law commission chairman justice an mittal is framing a draft law for the government to help check rising population of the state the draft law will be prepared in the next two months and the report will be submitted to the state government justice mittal said