WORLD POPULATION DAY

Sulekha Das :- The Inter Faith Community Study Center ( a project run by DWFCS) and Bankura Leprosy Mission jointly observed the World Population Day on 10th July 2011 at Bankura. About five hundred students and teachers from the Vocational Training Center of Bankura Leprosy Mission and Inter Faith Community Study Center and Church members marched the streets of Bankura, with placard and festoons. The message was “We are two and we have one” and “Small Family- Happy Family”. This was the first time that witnesses this rally on the World Population Day. At the end of the procession a public meeting was organized at the Bankura Central Church. Mrs. Santa Das the center in charge of Interfaith Community Study Centre and the Principal of the VTC, Leprosy Mission Mr. Arunangsu Biswas shared about the importance of population restriction and also shared about the work of Leprosy Mission in the town. The Revd. Amiya das, the parish priest of Bankura Pastorate gave some case studies on how population has affected our country. After the public meeting street plays were staged at ten strategic places in Bankura as a part of the awareness campaign presented by VTC students.  This street plays were exclusively scripted and directed by Rev. Amiya Das for this occasion and was enacted with Mr. Sunit Singh and Mrs. Raktima Singh taking the lead in starting them. 

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