Nargis Yadav the Symbolic Seven Billionth Baby

Nargis Yadav

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Nargis YadavNargis Yadav of Dauraha village on the outskirts of the city was declared the symbolic seven billionth resident of the world on Monday. Nargis was born at 7:20am at Mall block’s community health centre to farmer couple Ajay and Vinita Yadav and weighed 3kg at the time of birth.

Steering clear of making statistical claims of Nargis being the seven billionth individual on the earth, Plan International, the UK-based civil society organization behind the identification exercise, maintained that Nargis’ birth was more symbolic in nature.

Executive Director, Plan India, Bhagyashri Dengle, said, “It is not possible for us or anyone to claim that one child is the seven billionth baby. However, since the United National Population Fund had estimated that the world’s population would breach the seven billion mark on October 31, we decided to celebrate the arrival of the first girl child at this health centre on this day and call her the seven billionth baby. Nargis is a symbolic child.”

In 1999, the United Nations had designated Bosnian baby Lorrize Mae Guevarra as the world’s six billionth resident. This time, however, it decided not to weigh in, encouraging individual countries, instead, to identify their own “symbolic” seven billionth baby. As a result, news of the arrivals of several seven billionth children poured in from various corners of the globe, including at least three claims from within UP. Birth of a girl-Danica May Camacho-in Manila just past Sunday midnight also hogged limelight and Guevarra was there to welcome her.

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