'Wedding kits' to raise awareness on family planning in Odisha
Bhubaneswar, Aug 13: In a first for the country, the Odisha government has decided to provide wedding kits' to newly married couples from September to raise awareness about family planning, officials said.
The kits will contain contraceptive pills, condoms, a booklet on methods and benefits of family planning, and the marriage registration certificate among other items, they said.
This is a part of the National Health Mission's (NHM) Nai Pahal Scheme'. The objective is to create awareness among newly married couples to adopt family planning, Director of Family Planning Bijay Panigrahy said.
The initiative will begin from the district and block levels, he said.
We will launch it for the first time in the country, said Shalini Pandit, State Mission Director of NHM.
Panigrahy said accredited social health activists (ASHAs) will visit households where marriages are scheduled and distribute the kits.
The couples will also be informed about healthy spacing between child births, he added.
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China confirms its support to Pakistan during four-day conflict with India
Beijing (PTI): China, for the first time, has confirmed that it provided on-site technical support to Pakistan during the four-day conflict with India last year, official media reports here said.
China's state broadcaster CCTV on Thursday aired an interview with Zhang Heng, an engineer from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China's (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, a key developer of China’s advanced fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicle design.
Zhang had provided technical support to Pakistan during the four-day war last May, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported, quoting CCTV.
Pakistan's air force operates a fleet of Chinese-made J-10CE jets, produced by an AVIC subsidiary.
"At the support base, we frequently heard the roar of fighter jets taking off and the constant wail of air-raid sirens. By late morning, in May, the temperature was already approaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). It was a real ordeal for us, both mentally and physically,” Zhang said.
What drove his team was the "desire to do an even better job with on site support” and to ensure their equipment could “truly perform at its full combat potential”, Zhang told CCTV.
“That wasn’t just a recognition of the J10CE; it was also a testament to the deep bond we formed through working side by side, day in and day out,” he said.
