title: Folk musical dramas portray population issues. Gurgaon.
abstract: The State Population Education Cell of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is now testing the use of folk musical dramas in promoting population messages.  Being the language of the hearts, it is expected that about 50,000 students, teachers and members of the community will be oriented about the problems arising from rapid population growth through folk musical dramas.  These musical dramas are innovative vehicles adopted under the Village Adoption and Population Education Laboratory Schools by the SCERT.  It follows three phases.  The first phase required poet teachers to develop three folk musical dramas on the themes of status of women and gender disparity, importance of small family and population growth and its impact on environment.  The second phase saw the staging of these folk musical dramas in two adopted schools.  The presentations were video taped and recorded into audio-video cassettes.  For the last phase, another workshop will be organized to convene teacher poets to develop more folk musical dramas on the themes of adolescent problem, aging problem, mother and child care, delayed marriage, status of women and population growth and environment.  The video cassettes produced previously will be used in the training of teachers, students and heads of schools on the development of folk musical dramas.  After editing these dramas, they will be published in the form of booklets to promote wider dissemination to schools, which can stage these ready-made folk musical dramas during school celebrations and during the Population Education Week.
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003142:Communication; D003906:Developing Countries; D007194:India; D008402:Mass Media; D011155:Population Control; D011640:Public Policy
keywords: Asia; Communication; Communication Programs; Developing Countries; Folk Media; India; Mass Media; Policy; Population Control; Population Policy; Population Programs; Social Policy; Southern Asia