Chennai:
Unicef
has predicted that majority of children will grow up in towns and cities rather
than rural areas even as the population of children below six has declined by
13 per cent in rural Tamil Nadu.
According
to Unicef’s report ‘State of The World’s Children Report –2012’, more than 50
per cent of world’s population will live in urban areas. Interestingly, in
Tamil Nadu the population of below six years has increased by eight per cent in
the urban areas, according to Census 2011.
The
state has 69 lakh children in below six age group with 48 per cent of them
living in urban areas. Interestingly, the decadal variation in urban population
between 2001 and 2011 has been high in Kancheepuram, Krishnagiri and Tiruvallur
districts.
Unicef
report has also set out five key steps to build an equitable approach to
children living in town and cities. These include understanding poverty and
exclusion with better data and analysis, remove barriers to inclusion by
expansion of services and ensuring the use ofmarginalised families, put
children first by focusing the needs of children in urban planning and
infrastructure, promote partnership with urban poor with community involvement
and work together to achieve results for children pooling resources and
energies.
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