The media could play a vibrant role in sensitising lawmakers regarding the hazards of population explosion.
This was stated by speakers during a consultative meeting on ‘The Role of Media to Make Governance Elite Socially Responsive’ held on Sunday by the Contech Consortium under the Apna Pakistan campaign.
Speakers said that as a result of unchecked population growth, a large portion of the population had to live below the poverty line. They said that rapid and imbalanced population growth devoured economic growth and development, making positive intervention in the social sector ineffective. It also caused an insufficient delivery of public goods including health, education and social safety nets for the downtrodden segments of society, they added.
Key experts presented facts about various services, quality of life and state of governance that had a converse relationship with the rate of population growth in different societies.
Dr Naeem-ud-Din said, “Media has an instrumental role to play to make population growth an area of prime concern for decision makers.”
‘Media can create awareness about population explosion’
