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| Health, Education two important pillars of strong nation: Azad | | Releases MSER magazine 'Sankalp Ek Abhiyan' | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept14: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that Health and Education are the two important pillars on which edifice of a strong nation rests adding that 'our future prominence in the world, in fact, hinges on these two vital ingredients of progress.
Union Minister for Health said this while addressing gathering present at a function 'Healthy India, stronger India' function organized by Mahavir Society for Education and Research (MSER) at Vijaypur, here at General Zorawar Singh auditorium in Jammu University.
Besides Union Minister for Health other prominent present on the occasion included Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, Minister for Housing, Horticulture and Culture Raman Bhalla, Minister of State for Health Shabir Ahmed Khan, Minister of State for Cooperative Manohar Lal Sharma, Ex-Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma, Vice Chancellor Central University S S Bloeria, Vice Chancellor Jammu University Prof Mohanpal Singh Isher, Chairman of MSER Hira Lal Abrol, Principal MSER B N Sarkar.
Addressing the occasion Union Health Minister said UPA Government has positioned 'health and education' at the centre stage of its development strategy. Two core programmes of our development agenda are National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). He informed that centre Government has made massive and unprecedented investments to strengthen and expand health and educational systems across the country.
Azad said that six new AIIMS like institutes are soon going to become a reality in the country as the work on these is at very advanced stage. He said 'we are committed to upscale the expenditure on health during 12th plan and strengthen services to carve out an affordable and robust health care system consistent with our specific needs and requirements as also realize the goal of 'health for all'.
He informed that awareness and information about health schemes played an important role in promotion of health and disease prevention as also their treatment. He said more than 10,000 experts have been empanelled across the country to take part in these programmes to spread awareness about the health issues. So far more than 17000 editions of this programme have been telecast and broadcast across the country. He said MSER has taken a timely initiative for dissemination of information relating to health and education.
On this occasion Union Minister accompanied with Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and other dignitaries released a magazine 'Sankalp Ek Abhiyan' published by MSER on dissemination of information relating to health and education.
Earlier, the students of MSER also presented a colourful cultural programme highlighting the importance of health and education in the society which was highly applauded by the gathering. |
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