The Chief Minister emphasized that all members of the minority community should come up and help the administration in its efforts to eradicate poverty.
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Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urges minority community to adopt
Adopt a decent family planning policy for population control to reduce poverty, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has urged to the minority community in the state. The chief minister was speaking on the occasion of the completion of 30Â days of his government. All stakeholders in the community must come forward and support the government in helping reduce poverty in the community which is primarily due to an unabated increase in population, he said.
According to the 2011 Census, Muslims comprise 34.22 per cent of Assam s total population of 3.12 crore and they are in majority in several districts.