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19th Meeting of the Governing Council of the CIRDAP Inaugurated By the President
The President of India Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Nineteenth Meeting of the Governing Council of the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) on 30 September 2013 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
Highlights of the Inaugural Event
• The President stated that a rural growth strategy has become necessary to make a decisive impact on poverty and to trigger a development process that combines growth with equity.
• Land, which is increasingly becoming a scarce resource, needed to be managed efficiently.
• Principles of community empowerment needed to be adopted to increase the productivity of land, particularly rain-fed, degraded and waste lands.
• Rural areas need to be motivated to contribute towards the national progress.
• The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, which is active is promoting regional cooperation, has a big role to play.
• Other dignitaries present on the occasion included Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Rural Development; Pradeep Jain, Minister of State for Rural Development and Lal Chand Kataria, Minister of State for Rural Development.
Highlights of the Inaugural Event
• The President stated that a rural growth strategy has become necessary to make a decisive impact on poverty and to trigger a development process that combines growth with equity.
• Land, which is increasingly becoming a scarce resource, needed to be managed efficiently.
• Principles of community empowerment needed to be adopted to increase the productivity of land, particularly rain-fed, degraded and waste lands.
• Rural areas need to be motivated to contribute towards the national progress.
• The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific, which is active is promoting regional cooperation, has a big role to play.
• Other dignitaries present on the occasion included Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Rural Development; Pradeep Jain, Minister of State for Rural Development and Lal Chand Kataria, Minister of State for Rural Development.
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International Day of Older Persons Observed on 1 October
Every year from 1991 onwards on 1 October is observed as the International Day of Older Persons. The day celebrated every year to recognise the contributions of older persons in the society and examines the issues that affect their lives.
The theme of the 2013 International Day of Older Persons day is the future we want: what older persons are saying.
World-wide there are around 600 million persons aged 60 years and above. It will double by 2025 and will reach virtually two billion by 2050.The vast majority of them living in the developing world.
About the International Day of Older Persons
• United Nations General Assembly (by resolution 45/106) designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons in 1990.
• This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on ageing which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing.
The theme of the 2013 International Day of Older Persons day is the future we want: what older persons are saying.
World-wide there are around 600 million persons aged 60 years and above. It will double by 2025 and will reach virtually two billion by 2050.The vast majority of them living in the developing world.
About the International Day of Older Persons
• United Nations General Assembly (by resolution 45/106) designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons in 1990.
• This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on ageing which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing.
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