Aizawl: Sports Minister Mizoram Robert Romawia Royte, also known as “Triple R” distributed Rs 2.5 lakh up to 17 women who gave more children at a function held in the Constituency of Aizawl East-II on Tuesday.
Royte said incentives to mothers to have more children were given according to “more drives of children” launched by different church denominations and the Mizo Young Association Center Committee (YMA).
Ngurauvi from the Tuithiang Region, which is boring 15 children (8 daughters and 7 sons) pocketed the highest award and served with a quote along with RS 1 Lakh Cash, followed by Lianthangi from the localities of Chhinga Veng, the mother of 13, who was given a cash quote and rs 30,000.
Two women and one person, each of which has 12 children, was awarded the third prize and cash incentives of each RS 20,000 while 12 women, with 8 children each, each given an entertainment gift RS 5,000 and quote.
The function is led by Rev.
P.B.
Mankima from the Presbyterian Church and was attended by YMA leaders, including the President of the YMA Central Committee, Vanlatruata.
Church denominations, including the Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church, have campaigned to create awareness among people from the importance of having more children for Mizos’s survival.
YMA also made an effort to educate young couples throughout the state to bear more children who say the increasing population is the need for hours to survive Mizos.
Churches and some civil society are disrupted by a low population growth rate among Mizos while the growth rate of the Chakma community, which lives in the southwestern part of the country coexist with Bangladesh, is very high.
MIZO people, including YMA and student organizations, accused that the high growth rate among Chakmas, branded foreigners, are always high because of the large waves of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Mizoram population density of 52 people per sq.
Km far below the national average of 382, ​​they said, added, “the level of infertility and growth rates decreased from the population of Mizo had been a serious concern for years.”